Session settings stored by the portal
After a user logs out or the session times out, the portal stores the complete navigational state into the database, including...
- Portlet states:
- Normal
- Minimized
- Maximized
- Portlet modes:
- config
- edit_defaults
- edit
- view
- help
- Page selection:
- The last page active before the user logged out.
Authenticated and remembered users must have cookies enabled on their browser. Users can access portal sites without cookies enabled if they are anonymous users. If we turn on session tracking for anonymous users, then anonymous users also require cookies.
Resuming the session state is only possible if either the portal theme login link or WebSphere Application Server TAI based authentication is used to login to the portal. Whenever a URL is directly used to login or address a resource, this will overwrite the complete session state to be resumed and address the named resource with the default states and modes for its portlets. For example, this occurs when users use ../wps/myportal/ or ../wps/myportal/name/ for a URL mapping or friendly name