Editing the MyBuyBeans Portal

 

The following topics are covered here:

Building the Portlet

Adding the Portlet to the Portal

 

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Building the Portlet

We've created the JSP page for the promotion. We now need to add a portlet that uses the tutorial.jsp to the portal.

1. From the Administration Tools Home Page, click the Portal Management icon. The Portal Management home page appears.

2. In the Portlets bar, click create. The Create a New Portlet page appears.

3. Type Tutorial in the Portlet Name field and append tutorial.jsp to the existing content of portlets/ in the Content URL field.

4. Click create to create the new portlet. The page refreshes and confirms that the system created the portlet.

5. Click back to return to the Portal Management home page.

 

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Adding the Portlet to the Portal

1. Click the MyBuyBeans portal to open it. The MyBuyBeans portal view page appears.

2. Notice that the Tutorial portlet is displayed in the list but, as indicated by the graying out, is inactive. You must add the portlet to the MyBuyBeans portal to activate it. Click (+/-) in the Associated Portlets bar to add the Tutorial portlet to the MyBuyBeans portal. The Add or Remove Portlets edit page appears.

3. For the portlet named Tutorial, select the Visible option. This will make the portlet visible to MyBuyBeans portal users.

4. Click save to save the changes. The page refreshes and displays a message about the operation's success.

5. Click back to return to the MyBuyBeans portal view page. The page appears and the Tutorial portlet name is displayed with a check mark next to it. The check mark indicates that the portlet is visible to MyBuyBeans portal users.

6. Click finished to save the MyBuyBeans portal changes. The Portal Management home page appears.

7. Close the administration tool.

We've created the JSP page to match content to users based on the amount of beanie points they have and we've added a portlet to the MyBuyBeans portal to display the content as a message. In the next chapter, we'll deploy the portal and test it to see how content personalization works.