Create a category

Categories provide you with a way to organize your portlets using your own classification scheme. You can create new categories for grouping and organizing portlets in your collection. When working with the Portlet Palette, keep the following tips in mind:

• 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.

• 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.

• The Portlet Palette does not support the use of double quotes in category names.

Perform the following steps:

1. Click the expand arrow icon to open the Portlet Palette.

2. Click on the drop-down menu located by the Portlets title bar.

3. Click Create New Category.

4. Type a name for your new category.

5. Click OK to save your changes.

6. Click the collapse arrow icon to close the Portlet Palette.

Parent topic:

Manage portlets on a page

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