WebSynergy Terminology

Term

Meaning

Portlet 

Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. Typically, a portal page is displays as a collection of non-overlapping portlet windows, where each portlet window displays a portlet. 

WebSynergy portlets confirm to JSR286 standards. 

Instanciable Portlet 

If you can add many instances of a portlet to your page, the portlet is called an instanciable portlet. 

Non-instanciable Portlet 

If you can add just one instance of a portlet to your page, the portlet is called a it is a non-instanciable portlet. 

Public Page and Private Page 

Any user account on Project WebSynergy contains a Public Page and a Private Page. 

The page for the user account which can be accessed by a guest user is called as Public Page.

The page which you can access only when you login to the user account is called as Private Page.

Widget 

A widget is a portlet, with the exception that unlike portlets it is not based on Java, and created using some other programming language such as PHP. 

Friendly URLs 

The modifiable part of the url for the private page of an user account. 

Theme 

A look and feel setting which can be applied to a page. 

Layout Template 

A display scheme which can be applied to the portal. 

Guest 

A user without a WebSynergy account. 

User 

A user with a WebSynergy account. 

User Group 

Arbitrary groupings of users. 

Communities 

Collections of users who have a common interest. 

Organizations 

Organizations are hierarchical collections of Users. They are one of the two types of portal resources that can have pages. 

User Roles 

Regular, Community, and Organization 

Delegation Roles 

Guest, Power User, User, and Administrator