Personalized List portlet 


Overview

The Personalized List portlet provides a ready-to-use portlet for displaying personalized content from rules, content spots, or resources. In many cases it eliminates the need to code new portlets and JSP files yourself. You can use this portlet instead of coding the IBMRationalApplication Developer portlet.

The Personalized List portlet is not intended to be used with Web Content resource collection. When the Web Content resource collection is used with the Personalized List portlet, certain attributes like authoring template will show raw values from the repository that cannot be translated to a readable form. The details page of the Personalized List portlet will not show the results of the rendered content. The details page will show some attribute from the content, such as the creator or last modified date, which is not suitable for production use of content from Web Content Manager. To display Web Content rules, use a Portal Personalization Component in IBM Web Content Manager.

The intended use of the Personalized List portlet is to display personalized lists of documents. The Personalized List can also be used with some generated or custom resource collections.


Use the Personalized List portlet

  1. Copy...

      scp -r installedApps/Pers_Offers/Pers_Offers.war/WEB-INF/classes/pers_offers/ WP_PROFILE_ROOT/PortalServer/pzn/collections

  2. Restart IBM WebSphere Portal.

  3. Log in as wpadmin and go to....

      Administration | Portlet Management | Portlets | Search | Personalized List

  4. Make a copy of the Personalized List portlet, named Personalized List Special Offers.

  5. Set access control for the new portlet so All Authenticated Portal Users are Privileged Users.

  6. Add the Personalized List Special Offers portlet to a new page under Personalization called Pers List Portlet - Rules.

  7. Display the new page with the new portlet.

  8. Hover over the upper right corner of the Personalized List Special Offers portlet title bar, and from the drop-down menu select...

      Configure | Which Personalization resources are retrieved | menu icon | Select a Rule, Content Spot or Resource Collection | Pers Offers | Pzn_offers | OK

  9. Click Display Options, select options, and click OK.

  10. Click OK again to see the portlet.

  11. Click on one of the title links to see the details of that resource.

  12. Click Back.

  13. Configure the portlet again to show more personalized offers.

  14. From the Personalization Picker, select the content spot Pzn_offersSpot under the Workspace Root and click OK.

  15. Click Display Options, and set values.

  16. Set the Title Attribute and Detail Attribute values to Fixed. Click OK.

  17. Complete the configuration and see that the Personalized List Special Offers portlet is empty. This is because the administrator has not entered customer details in the pzndemo database for the user resource being used.

  18. Log in as Scott and view the Personalized List Special Offers portlet. The portlet displays the personalized offers based on the rule, Show Offers By Customer Type, which is mapped to the content spot Pzn_offersSpot.

  19. Test this portlet, logging in as each pzndemo user having a different profile. You should get the same content results that you saw previously using own custom-built portlet, Pers_Offers, except you do not have to code a portlet or a JSP file.


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Developing a personalized portlet


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