15 Working with Portlets

Figure 15-1 Portal Content Is Comprised of Portlets and Items

Description of "Figure 15-1 Portal Content Is Comprised of Portlets and Items"

Along with items, portlets are the fundamental building blocks of a portal page. Add them to a page to provide your users with tools to make their experience of your portal meaningful and dynamic. For example, add dynamic charts, tables, or graphs of sales data. Customize Search portlets to automatically serve up content classified under different categories. Keep a list of favorite links always at hand.

This chapter provides information on adding portlets to a page, editing and personalizing portlets, and publishing pages as portlets. It contains the following subsections:

• Section 15.1, "Adding a Portlet to a Page"

• Section 15.2, "Arranging Portlets in a Region"

• Section 15.3, "Editing and Personalizing Portlets"

• Section 15.4, "Hiding and Showing Portlets"

• Section 15.5, "Deleting Portlets"

• Section 15.6, "Moving Portlets to Another Region"

• Section 15.7, "Sharing a Portlet Across Multiple Pages"

• Section 15.8, "Troubleshooting Portlet Issues"

Note:

For information on working with seeded portlets, see Section A.5, "Built-in Portlets". For information on custom searches, see Chapter 16, "Working with Search Portlets". For information on externally published portlets and JavaServer Pages, see Section 4.5.9, "Enabling JavaServer Page Access to a Page Group".

Oracle Portal provides several caching options to assist page designers and administrators with optimizing the performance of their portal pages, portlets, and templates. To find out more about caching, see Chapter 21, "Improving Page Performance".

Intended Audience

The content of this chapter is intended for users who are logged on as authorized users and who have at least the page privilege Manage Content. If a particular task requires a different privilege, the required privilege is listed before the steps of that task.