Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Add a portlet to a page
The Portlet Palette provides you with a quick and easy way to deploy portlets to the page. You can drag a single portlet or multiple portlets within the same category to the page. Categories provide you with a way to organize portlets in the Portlet Palette. IBM recommends that you only add portlets to the page using the drag-and-drop feature from the Portlet Palette. Accessible alternatives for adding portlets to the page are provided in this topic.
- Adding a portlet to a page from the Portlet Palette
- Accessible alternative for adding a portlet to a page
Add a portlet to a page from the Portlet Palette
Perform the following steps:
- Click
to open the Portlet Palette.
- Click on a portlet from your Portlet Palette and continue to hold the mouse key down.
To select multiple portlets in a category, hold the Ctrl key down while clicking on the appropriate portlets.
- Drag the portlet to a destination on the page. A horizontal bar appears as you drag the portlet over areas on the page available for deployment. When you drag the portlet within close proximity of a permissible drop zone, the color of the horizontal bar changes from a muted to a more saturated tone.
- Drop the portlet to the page as appropriate by releasing the mouse key to add the portlet where you view a horizontal bar.
- Click
to close the Portlet Palette.
General tips for working with the Portlet Palette are as follows:
- You should be logged in to the portal site using an ID with sufficient access rights to modify a page. Access control for customizing and working with the Portlet Palette is based on portlet roles, portlet modes, and page permissions. The portlets available to you are also filtered by any restricted portlet lists that exist for a page. Refer to Access control for the Portlet Palette and Modifying Portlet Palette settings for more detailed information.
- The drag-and-drop feature is present for default portal themes in rows and containers that are not locked.
- Entries in the Portlet Palette could become obsolete. For example, when an administrator deletes a portlet from the portal while a user is creating or editing pages, the user may not be aware of these updates. A user must log out and log back in to the portal to view the changes made by the administrator. If a user attempts to drag a portlet from the Portlet Palette when the portlet no longer exists, a message is recorded to the portal logs. Although this is a rare situation, administrators should not remove and add portlets during normal business hours.
Accessible alternative for adding a portlet to a page
A mouse is required to use the drag-and-drop feature of the portal. Alternatively, you can use your keyboard to add portlets to a page as an accessible alternative to dragging portlets from the Portlet Palette to the page. Perform the following steps as an alternative to using the drag-and drop feature for adding a portlet to a page:
- Navigate to the page that you wish to add the portlet.
- Select the Tab key until you access the drop-down menu beside the page title.
- Select the Tab key until you highlight Edit Page Layout.
- From Edit Layout located on the Content page, select the Tab key until you highlight Add Portlets in the appropriate container where you want the portlet to be added.
- Use the features that are provided to select the portlets that you want to add. You must select the check box for each portlet that you want to add.
- Select the Tab key until you highlight OK to add the portlet to the container.
- Select the Enter key. The page is displayed with the portlet that you just added.
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