Display Profile

The display profile is a set of XML documents used to define and configure providers and channels in the Portal Server. The display profile defines:

• Providers

• Channels

• Container channels

A provider’s display profile document acts as a template for creating channels. They define the set of properties that channels based on this provider will make use of, as well as providing default values for these properties where appropriate. Channels and container channels must reference a provider, and will use their default property values unless the property is redefined in the channel.

The display profile used to generate a user’s Desktop is constructed by merging together multiple display profile documents. Each display profile contains a series of XML instructions for storing channel properties.

The display profile documents are stored in their entirety as a single attribute in the Sun Java System Access Manager services layer. That is, the display profile documents are an LDAP attribute residing in an instance of the Sun Java System Directory Server.

See the Sun Java System Portal Server7.1 Technical Reference Guide for a complete discussion of the display profile.