Business portlets

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Business portlets are automatically installed and may be displayed on a page after WebSphere Portal is installed and started.
Most of the business portlets are also available on the IBM WebSphere Portal Business Solutions catalog.

Application Description
Welcome Shows version and copyright for WebSphere Portal installed.
Bookmarks IBM Bookmarks Portlet displays bookmarks defined by the user in a browser The user can add, delete, and edit bookmarks. Click the link to go to the portlet catalog for more information on this portlet.
Reminder The IBM Reminder Portlet enables users to create, save, and display brief text reminders on their portal pages. Users can change the appearance of the reminders and sort them by urgency or due date. Users can add, edit and delete reminders, as well as highlight overdue reminders in bold. Users can also assign each reminder a priority and icon category
For example a birthday reminder will display a cake and candle icon next to the text).
Banner Ad Banner Ad enables users to insert and view an image on a portal page.
This image can be hyperlinked to a web page. This web page can be specified to open either in the same or a new browser window.
The Banner Ad portlet verifies that a URL has been entered for a particular image, but does not verify the validity of the URL.
Document Viewer The Document Viewer application enables users to conveniently browse Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and rich text documents. This application consists of five portlets:

Word Document Viewer Portlet
Excel Document Viewer Portlet
PowerPoint Document Viewer Portlet
PDF Document Viewer Portlet
Rich Text Document Viewer Portlet

The documents can be viewed either within the portlet or in another window. Users can also modify the size of the display area if they browse within the portlet.
Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Web browser plug-in for the PDF viewer are required. You need the corresponding viewer application to use the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document viewers.
The Rich Text File Viewer only supports Internet Explorer and requires a Word viewer at the minimum.
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Portlet Application The Microsoft Exchange 2003 Portlet Application connects to an Exchange server. This portlet application contains the following portlets:

MS Exchange 2003 Mail Portlet
MS Exchange 2003 Calendar Portlet
MS Exchange 2003 Tasks Portlet
MS Exchange 2003 Contacts Portlet
MS Exchange 2003 Notes Portlet

See the catalog documentation for the configuration settings and limitations of this portlet application.
My Query Reports (SQL) My Query Reports portlet executes and displays the results of SQL queries submitted by the user. Users can also save SQL queries for later use. This portlet displays a list of SQL queries that the user had previously defined in the portlet Edit mode. Users can create, update, and test queries in the portlet Edit mode. Further, a user can select a query for execution. The portlet executes the query and displays the results in a table. Users can sort the result columns by clicking the links in the table headers.
This portlet needs possible network access to the Database for SQL queries. It also requires JDBC drivers for the SQL queries in the system classpath.
RSS Portlet The RSS portlet enables users to read RSS feeds from various content providers, including news, information, and solutions web sites.
IBM Feed Reader Portlet The IBM Feed Reader portlet enables users to configure RSS and Atom feeds from content providers.

Application	Description
Welcome	Shows version and copyright for WebSphere Portal installed.
Bookmarks	IBM Bookmarks Portlet displays bookmarks defined by the user in a browser The user can add, delete, and edit bookmarks. Click the link to go to the portlet catalog for more information on this portlet.
Reminder	The IBM Reminder Portlet enables users to create, save, and display brief text reminders on their portal pages. Users can change the appearance of the reminders and sort them by urgency or due date. Users can add, edit and delete reminders, as well as highlight overdue reminders in bold. Users can also assign each reminder a priority and icon category For example a birthday reminder will display a cake and candle icon next to the text).
Banner Ad	Banner Ad enables users to insert and view an image on a portal page. This image can be hyperlinked to a web page. This web page can be specified to open either in the same or a new browser window. The Banner Ad portlet verifies that a URL has been entered for a particular image, but does not verify the validity of the URL.
Document Viewer	The Document Viewer application enables users to conveniently browse Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and rich text documents. This application consists of five portlets: Word Document Viewer Portlet Excel Document Viewer Portlet PowerPoint Document Viewer Portlet PDF Document Viewer Portlet Rich Text Document Viewer Portlet The documents can be viewed either within the portlet or in another window. Users can also modify the size of the display area if they browse within the portlet. Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Web browser plug-in for the PDF viewer are required. You need the corresponding viewer application to use the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document viewers. The Rich Text File Viewer only supports Internet Explorer and requires a Word viewer at the minimum.
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Portlet Application	The Microsoft Exchange 2003 Portlet Application connects to an Exchange server. This portlet application contains the following portlets: MS Exchange 2003 Mail Portlet MS Exchange 2003 Calendar Portlet MS Exchange 2003 Tasks Portlet MS Exchange 2003 Contacts Portlet MS Exchange 2003 Notes Portlet See the catalog documentation for the configuration settings and limitations of this portlet application.
My Query Reports (SQL)	My Query Reports portlet executes and displays the results of SQL queries submitted by the user. Users can also save SQL queries for later use. This portlet displays a list of SQL queries that the user had previously defined in the portlet Edit mode. Users can create, update, and test queries in the portlet Edit mode. Further, a user can select a query for execution. The portlet executes the query and displays the results in a table. Users can sort the result columns by clicking the links in the table headers. This portlet needs possible network access to the Database for SQL queries. It also requires JDBC drivers for the SQL queries in the system classpath.
RSS Portlet	The RSS portlet enables users to read RSS feeds from various content providers, including news, information, and solutions web sites.
IBM Feed Reader Portlet	The IBM Feed Reader portlet enables users to configure RSS and Atom feeds from content providers.

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