Mashup pages
Mashup pages display widgets instead of portlets in the portal.
You can either separate the two different types of pages into separate areas in the portal, for example a Home and a My Mashups area, but you can also use both types of pages concurrently. In this case be aware that portal pages use different themes than mashup pages do. This means that the user experience between portal and mashup pages might be different.
Although mashup and portal pages share a lot of aspects, there are also differences. The following table gives more details of the behavior for different aspects:
Portal pages
| Mashup pages
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| Content
| Portlets
| Widgets
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| Customization of page content
| You can configure content of portlets on 3 levels:
- Configuration
- Edit Shared Settings
- Personalization
| You can configure content of widgets on 1 level only:
|
| Move pages
| Yes
| Yes
|
| Activate pages
| Yes
| No
|
| Access control scope
| You can define access control on page scope and also on individual portlets on the page.
| You can define access control on the page scope.
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| Wires
| You can wire portlets on a page and also across pages.
| You can wire widgets on a mashup page together. You cannot wire widgets on different pages together.
|
| Themes
| You can assign different themes of the type portal theme only to portal pages.
| You can assign different themes of the type mashup theme only to mashup pages.
|
| URL Mappings
| Yes
| No
|
| Friendly URLs
| Yes
| No
|
| Virtual portals
| Yes
| Yes. - For limitations refer to the topic about Configuring mashup pages in virtual portals.
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| Bookmarks
| Yes
| No
|
| Site analysis
| Yes
| No
|
| Derived pages
| Yes
| No
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| Support for the XML configuration interface
| Yes
| Yes
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Parent
Overview of portal mashup integration
Configure mashup pages in virtual portals