Understanding Desktop Attributes

The Desktop merges all documents in a user's display profile merger set and uses the result to configure the user's desktop. A display profile merger set consists of all the display profile documents associated with a user. Display profiles are defined at different levels in the Portal Server organization tree. Display profile documents from the various levels of the tree are merged or combined to create the user's display profile.

For example, the user's display profile document is merged with the role display profile documents (if any), the organization's display profile document, and the global display profile document to form the user's display profile.

The Desktop display profile and other configuration data are defined as service attributes such as parent container, desktop type and edit container of the portal Desktop service under the Sun Java System Access Manager service management framework. When an organization adds for the Portal Desktop service from the Sun Java System Access Manager management console, all users within the organization inherit the Portal Desktop service attributes in their user profiles. These attributes are queried by the Portal Desktop to determine how information will be aggregated and presented in the Portal Desktop.

See Managing Desktop Attributes