Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Accessible alternative for adding a portlet to a page

A mouse is required to use the drag-and-drop feature of your portal. Alternatively, you can use your keyboard to add portlets to a page as an accessible alternative to dragging portlets from the Portlet Palette to the page.

• 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.

Perform the following steps as an alternative to using the drag-and drop feature for adding a portlet to a page:

1. Navigate to the page that you wish to add the portlet.
2. Press the Tab key until you access the drop-down menu beside the page title.
3. Press the Tab key until you highlight Edit Page Layout.
4. From Edit Layout located on the Content page, press the Tab key until you highlight Add Portlets in the appropriate container where you want the portlet to be added.
5. Use the features that are provided to select the portlets that you want to add. You must select the check box for each portlet that you want to add.
6. Press the Tab key until you highlight OK to add the portlet to the container.
7. Press the Enter key. The page is displayed with the portlet that you just added.