Portlet states
Portlet states determine how individual portlets look when a user accesses them on the portal page. These states are very similar to minimize, restore, and maximize window states of applications run on any popular operating system just in a Web-based environment.
The state of the portlet is stored in the PortletWindow.State object and can be queried for changing the way a portlet looks or behaves based on its current state. The IBM portlet API defines three possible states for a portlet:
| Normal-The portlet is displayed in its initial state, as defined when it was installed.
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| Minimized-Only the portlet title bar is visible on the portal page.
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| Maximized-The portlet fills the entire body of the portal page, hiding all other portlets.
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