Portal Server Administration Tag Library and Portlets

Portal Server provides an administration tag library for developing administration portlets that enable a portal to be managed from the Desktop instead of from the management console. The tag library allows administrators to do the following:

• Modify out-of-the-box administration portlets

• Develop portlets with new administration functionality

• Support user management, provider management, and portlet and WSRP management tasks

• Create and administer channels that are based on JSPProvider

• Write custom administration portlets with a custom user interface

• Write administrative portlets to manage any custom channel

Portal administrators can delegate the responsibility for managing various tasks in a particular organization to other individuals, called delegated administrators. In complex enterprises, granting delegated administration status to specified users can decentralize the administrative function to improve portal management.

To make delegated administration functions available to other users, portal administrators give them access to the Admin tab on the standard Desktop. The Admin tab includes the following portlets:

• User Administration portlets

  • Reset Password Admin

  • Role Admin

  • Create/Delete User Admin

• Tab administration portlets

  • Create Tab Admin

  • Delete Tab Admin

  • Tab Configuration Admin

• Channel administration portlets

  • Create Channel Admin

  • Delete Channel Admin

  • URLScraper Admin

  • Create WSRP Channel Admin

Portal Server provides a sample set of administration portlets that can be used to design a basic Desktop for delegated administrators.

For more information, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Developer Sample Guide.