Custom Portlet of the Dashboards Page

Overview

Use this portlet as a convenient access point to frequently used web sites, intranets, and other online data.

Screen Elements

Title field

The name of the custom portlet.

This title appears in the portlet's title bar on the dashboard to identify the custom portlet.

URL content

The content (strings, parameters, and syntax) associated with the URL you specified for this custom portlet. For example, to set up a custom portlet to a website, simply type its full web address:

http://www.hostname.domainsuffix

P6 also allows you to use special keywords in braces that are dynamically replaced with the data that corresponds to the currently logged in user, password, and open project. The order of the optional keywords does not matter.

{USER}: the name of the logged in user
{USER_ID}: the ID of the logged in user
{PASS}: the password of the logged in user
{PROJ}: the project name for the currently open project
{PROJ_ID}: the project short name for the currently open project

For example, on a dashboard, a custom portlet URL may be specified as:

http://www.hostname?user={USER}&pass={PASS}&userid={USER_ID}

On a custom portlet URL for the currently open and selected project may be specified as:

http://www.hostname?user={USER}&pass={PASS}&userid={USER_ID}&proj={PROJ}&projid={PROJ_ID}

Note

On the Dashboard page, you can use the USER and USER_ID keywords.
Some Web sites do not allow their pages to be displayed within a portlet. If you specify a URL that has this restriction, the custom site will occupy the entire browser window and you will be unable to access P6. To recover, exit the browser and log in to P6 again appending the ?safemode=1 parameter to your P6 server URL in your browser's address bar as shown in the example below. After typing the safemode URL, press Enter, then click Login. When you log in using safe mode, the custom portlets are prevented from loading. Customize the dashboard to remove or revise the custom portlet URL. Then, log out to exit safe mode and log in again using your standard P6 server URL.
http://serverIP:listenport/p6/action/login?safemode=1

http://serverIP:listenport/p6/action/login?safemode=1

Getting Here

On the Navigation Menu, expand Dashboard.
On the Dashboards page, select a dashboard.
On the dashboard, expand the Custom portlet.

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