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Portlet Features and Functionality
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Overview of the Portlets
This topic provides an overview of the Avitek Financial Services portlets, outlines the different visitor types, briefly discusses each portlet, and provides a description of portlet controls. It contains information on the following subjects:
Portlet Overview
As previously mentioned, the Avitek Financial Services portal contains a wide variety of portlets. Table 2-1 provides a short description of each portlet.
Table 2-1 Overview of the Avitek Financial Services Portlets
Group Portals, Roles, Visitors, and Passwords
Group Portals The Avitek Financial Services portal has two group portals: the Avitek group portal and the default group portal. (The default group portal was automatically generated when the Avitek Financial Services portal was created.) Group portals are different configurations of a portal. Each group portal has a specified user group and allows delegation of privileges among administrators. For most of this tour and within the application, the group portals are usually referred to by their user group name, as shown in the QuickLinks portlet (Figure 2-1).
Figure 2-1 Group and Roles
Visitors and roles The Avitek Financial Services portal has ten predefined visitors (visitor1, visitor2 ... visitor10). Every visitor belongs to a group and a role. The portlets displayed to a particular visitor depend on that visitor's group membership and role. Each group and role has different capabilities and privileges. To see the functionality of the various portlets, you need to switch visitor types. Note: Roles also determine which Entitlement Segments a visitor belongs to. For example, a visitor whose role is Investor is placed in the Investor Entitlement Segment. Entitlement Segments and their default values are defined in the E-Business Control Center. The values (properties) for a particular visitor is set in the WebLogic Portal Administration Tools. For more information about Group Portals and Entitlement Segments, see "Portal Management" in the Portal Example—Visitor and Administrator Features tour at http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs70/ptour/portmgm.htm# and the E-Business Control Center online help. Passwords All predefined visitors use the same password, which is "password" and is case sensitive. The following list describes the effect of each group and role on portlet availability:
Table 2-2 Visitor, Group, and Role Associations
Portlet Controls
Portlet controls allow you to use portlets. For example, a portlet may have more than one view; it may be maximized, minimized, or detached from the portal. Portlet views are implemented using JavaServer Pages (JSP). They range in complexity from containing simple static HTML content to employing JSP tag libraries or JSP scriptlets that access Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components or other application functionality within the application server. The controls for portlets in the Avitek Financial Services portal are listed in Table 2-3.
Table 2-3 Portlet Controls
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