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Access control for the Palette

Access control for customizing and working with the Portlet Palette is based on portlet roles, portlet modes, and page permissions. By default, users are assigned to the All Authenticated Portal Users role which only provides read access to the Portlet Palette. Users will only see portlets on the Portlet Palette that they have user access to view.


Permissions for portlet and page roles

The following table provides descriptions for the available permissions associated with different portlet roles.

Portlet and Page Roles Description of Permissions
User@portlet, User@Portlet Palette page Read-only access to the Portlet Palette. Users can drag portlets from the Portlet Palette to the page but cannot modify or customize the Portlet Palette.
Privileged User@portlet, Privileged User@Portlet Palette page All of the privileges of the User role, plus the ability to customize your private view of the Portlet Palette while in the Personalize mode. You can perform the following tasks:

  • Adding a portlet to category

  • Creating a category

  • Search for portlets

  • Rearrange categories

  • Coping a portlet to another category

  • Copy a portlet to multiple categories

  • Rename a category you create

  • Deleting a category you create

  • Deleting a portlet you add to a category

  • Deleting a portlet you copy to another category

You cannot delete portlets or categories that are created in the Edit Shared Settings and Configure modes.

Editor@portlet, Editor@Portlet Palette page All of the privileges of the User role, plus the ability to customize the Portlet Palette while using Edit Shared Settings. These changes will display to all users who have access to this specific page. You can perform the following tasks while using Edit Shared Settings:

  • Adding a portlet to category

  • Creating a category

  • Search for portlets

  • Rearrange categories

  • Coping a portlet to another category

  • Copy a portlet to multiple categories

  • Rename a category that you create

  • Deleting a category created in this mode

  • Deleting a portlet you copy to another category in this mode

  • In order to Personalize your individual instance of the Palette, also have Privileged User access role on the Portlet Palette.

  • You cannot drag portlets to the page while using Edit Shared Settings.

  • You cannot delete portlets or categories that are created in the Configure mode.

Manager@portlet, Manager@Portlet Palette page All the privileges of the Editor role plus the ability to modify all instances across all pages of the Portlet Palette while in the Configure mode. You can perform the following tasks while in the Configure mode:

  • Adding a portlet to category

  • Creating a category

  • Search for portlets

  • Rearrange categories

  • Coping a portlet to another category

  • Copy a portlet to multiple categories

  • Rename a category

  • Deleting a category

  • Deleting a portlet you copy to another category

  • In order to Personalize your individual instance of the Portlet Palette, also have Privileged User access role on the Portlet Palette.

  • You cannot drag portlets to the page while in the Edit Shared Settings or Configure modes.

Administrator@portlet, Administrator@Portlet Palette page All the privileges of the Privileged User and Manager roles. The Administrator role can perform tasks within the Personalize, Edit Shared Settings, and Configure modes.

You cannot drag portlets to the page while in the Edit Shared Settings or Configure modes.


Parent topic:

Manage portlets on a page