What is the Tour of the Stock Portal

 

Welcome to the Tour of the Stock Portal. The Stock Portal is a basic portal configuration that you can use for getting acquainted with the portal features of BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0. The Stock Portal has three tabs, each containing portlets that demonstrate several possibilities in portlet design and content. The Misc. tab contains several purely generic portlets intended for developers to use for design and experimentation. The Avitek Financial Sample Portal contains a number of portlets that further demonstrate portlet design and possibility. You can get the Sample Portal at the BEA Developer Center (http://developer.bea.com/index.jsp). You can learn more about the Sample Portal in the Tour of the Avitek Financial Portal.

The Tour of the Stock Portal is intended to primarily demonstrate features available in WebLogic Portal. This tour consists of follow along, step-by-step instructions for changing the appearance and composition of the Stock Portal application and its portlets, plus descriptive information about various portal features. In the first part of the tour, you become acquainted with the various visitor options—you do things like create a new user; change the color scheme (skin) of the portal; and add, remove, and move portlets. In the second part of the tour you learn about portal management—you do the same kinds of things for groups that you did for visitor options, plus you learn about entitlements, administrative privileges, and delegation.

The tour includes the following sections:

• About the Product Licenses and This Tour

• Getting Started

 

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About the Product Licenses and This Tour

Two types of product licenses are available that affect which features of the WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Personalization Server software you can use:

• The WebLogic Portal license—This license contains all product features. That is, all the services related to the development of Web-based portals, all Campaign and Commerce services, and all the features of the WebLogic Personalization Server.

• The WebLogic Personalization Server only license contains only personalization services.

During the product software installation, all components are installed. However, your license file is checked at run-time to determine which features you can use. This tour documents a sample portal application that is available only when using the full WebLogic Portal license.

The Stock Portal application shown in this tour cannot be run if you have the WebLogic Personalization Server only license. However, there is a separate tour document for WebLogic Personalization Server users; see the "Personalization Examples."

For information about how the license file is configured on your system, see the "Post-Installation Considerations" in theInstallation Guide. For information about which product features are available with each type of product package license, see "About Licensing" the WebLogic Portal 4.0 document Home page.

 

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Getting Started

Before you begin the Tour of the Stock Portal, make sure the following are installed:

• WebLogic Server 6.1

• WebLogic Portal Service Pack 1

Also before beginning the tour, you need to complete the following steps:

1. Start the WebLogic Portal as follows:

   Windows: Start Menu -> Programs -> BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform -> BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 -> Start BEA WebLogic Portal

   UNIX: Run <install directory>/WebLogicPortal4.0/StartPortal.sh

2. Enter the login password that was set up during WebLogic Portal installation.

Startup is complete when the console window shows that the server is running in production mode.

Note: When you start the WebLogic Portal for the first time, the startup process can take several minutes. Subsequent startups happen more quickly.

1. Start the Stock Portal as follows:

   Windows: Start Menu -> Programs -> BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform -> BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 -> Start Portal Example

   UNIX: Log on to the Stock Portal client. If you installed WebLogic Portal with the default settings, you can use the following URL in a browser that is invoked on the same machine as the server:

   http://localhost:7501/stockportal/index.jsp

   where localhost is the name of the server running the Sample Portal.

Note: The default port is 7501. For information on changing port numbers, see "Configure Listen Ports" in the Deployment Guide.