Deploying Custom Adaptive Tags

To deploy custom adaptive tags, follow these steps.

Navigate to PORTAL_HOME\settings\portal and open CustomTags.xml in a text editor (you might need to make the file writeable).
Find the <AppLibFiles> tag and add a new entry using the name of the .jar/.dll file used to define the custom tag library (e.g., mytags).
```
<AppLibFiles>
<libfile name="sampletags"/>
</AppLibFiles>
```
Add the custom implementation (.jar/.dll) to the portal hierarchy:
- Java: Copy the custom .jar file to PORTAL_HOME\lib\java and add it to the portal.war file in PORTAL_HOME\webapp. (You must stop the portal while modifying portal.war because it will be locked while the portal is running.)
- .NET: Copy the custom .dll file to PORTAL_HOME\webapp\portal\bin.
Run a clean build of the portal to refresh all the jar files associated with the portal.
Once you have deployed your code, create a portlet that contains the tag. Custom Adaptive Tags must either include the correct XML namespace or be contained within another tag that does. The simplest way is to put the HTML inside a span. Custom adaptive tags must use the pt:libraryname.tagname and pt:attributename format. The sample code below references the custom tag from Creating Custom Adaptive Tags.
```
<span xmlns:pt='http://www.plumtree.com/xmlschemas/ptui/'>
<pt:sample.hellolocation pt:message="Hello" pt:location="San Francisco"/>
</span>
```
Add the portlet to a portal page and view the page. Test all custom tags.

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