Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

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Work with composite applications

Use the application catalog to create, manage, and open composite applications. To work with a composite application, use the actions that are available to you on the application page menu. From the main menu, click Templates; then click the Application Library tab to work with the applications catalog. From an open application, click the page menu to see the application actions that are available to you.

Working with the applications catalog

Working with instances of composite applications

 

Work with the applications catalog

The applications catalog is a portlet that serves as a library of applications to which you have access. The applications that are available to you can belong to more than one category. From within the applications catalog, you can perform basic actions:

• Filter the display to show a subset of applications by category and state

• Find applications within a filtered view of the catalogRestriction: Using Find Applications to filter the applications catalog in Turkish will yield unexpected results. Results for text that contains the Turkish representation of the English character I and its lowercase form, i, will be confused. The underlying database function does not correctly recognize the uppercase and lowercase forms of the Turkish representation of the English character I. This limitation causes mismatched text to be found and matching text not to be found.

• Sort the listed applications

• Work with favorite applications

• Open an application to work with it

• Create new applications if you have permission.Here's a preview of creating a new application:

  1. From the applications catalog click New to create a new application of the current category of applications displayed in the catalog.

     You must have permission to create applications, and set the catalog to show a particular category of application; otherwise, the New button is not available.

  2. Type a description for the application.

  3. Choose a template that will provide the properties, pages, and membership roles of the application and click OK.

  4. In Set Component Properties, keep or change the value for the application parameter Policy Selection Attribute to assign a policy to the application and click OK.

     The value of the Policy Selection Attribute is defined in the application template. The value assigns a policy to all applications assembled from the template. The main policy for all composite applications created from is assigned by the Policy Selection Attribute value CompositeApp. If child policies for composite applications have been created and added to templates as application parameters, the value displayed for the Policy Selection Attribute is the one defined by the application template that assigns the desired child policy to the application. If you know the values for the Policy Selection Attribute of child policies and you want to assign a different policy to the application, type the value of the Policy Selection Attribute that you need.

     Tip: When you view the detailed status of the application as detected by its policy in the Policy Status portlet, you can edit the value of the Policy Selection Attribute and refresh application status information based on the newly assigned policy.

  5. Repeat Steps 1 through 4 to create additional applications and assign policies to them.

  6. Work with each application by performing the actions described in Working with instances of composite applications.

  7. View the applications in the catalog and manage them as required by the status conditions detected by their assigned policies.

If you are an administrator or an application manager, you can perform advanced actions from within the applications catalog:

• View application status based on conditions detected by assigned policies and adjust assigned policies

• Delete applications

  Deleting an application permanently removes the application and all of its content (application components and membership list) from the server. A confirmation message lets you proceed with or cancel the Delete action.

• Unlock applications

  If an application has exceeded the limits set by its policy for size, inactivity, and lack of modification, the application is locked. The padlock icon is displayed in front of the application name in the catalog. You can click the padlock icon to unlock the application. Then open the application to refine the elements that require attention. Consider updating the policy settings or assigning a different policy to the application.

 

Work with instances of composite applications

Applications that you or other users assemble from a template are displayed in the application catalog. You open an application by clicking its name in the catalog. Each application has one or more pages that contain its components. If you have permission to edit an application, its members, and its pages, you can see the actions that are available to you from the drop-down menu of an application page:

• Edit Application Properties

• Edit Application Layout

• Assign Application Members

• Manage Application Roles

• Show Policy Status

• Save Application as Template

• New Page

• Edit Page Layout

• Edit Page Properties

• Assign Page Permissions

• Delete Page

The menu choices that you see will depend on the level of access that you have for editing applications, application membership, and application pages. Each menu choice opens a portlet where you perform the task. After you open a portlet for an application task, refer to the Help topics for more information about the task.

• Application properties
  Use the Properties portlet to view and edit the properties of a composite application. From the drop-down menu of an application page, click Edit Application Properties to display the properties of the application. Then click Edit to change application properties that are editable.

• Application pages
  Use the Application Layout portlet to view, create, and manage pages of an application. From the drop-down menu of an application page, click Edit Application Layout to work with the pages of the application.

• Application roles
  Use the Roles portlet to view and manage the roles for the members of a composite application. From the drop-down menu of an application page, click Manage Application Roles. Use the Members portlet to add users to the membership list of the application and assign them roles. From the drop-down menu of an application page, click Assign Application Members to display the Members portlet.

• Access to applications and components
  Specify user access to composite applications, application pages, and application components by customizing the default membership roles that are initially displayed in the Roles portlet: Administrators and Users.

• Application management
  Manage composite applications by using a variety of features in application template libraries, applications catalogs, and portal administration pages.

 

Parent topic:

Composite applications

 

Related reference

Policy settings for composite applications

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