WebSphere

 

Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

 

Overview of administration portlets

 

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  1. Portal User Interface
  2. Portlet Management
  3. Portal Access
  4. Portal Settings
  5. Portal Content
  6. Portal Analysis
  7. Search Administration
  8. Virtual Portals
  9. Other portlets that are useful for administration

 

Portal User Interface

The following sections describe the portlets provided for customizing the user interface for WebSphere Portal Express.

Manage Pages

The Manage Pages portlet allows you to export page configurations in XML, create, edit, activate, order, and delete pages as well as external Web pages and labels. Available tasks depend on which item is selected. Each page can contain multiple pages.

Themes and Skins

The Themes and Skins portlet allows you to install, edit, and delete themes as well as install and edit skins. You can also select a default theme and skin using this portlet.

 

Portlet Management

The following sections describe the portlets provided for working with portlets, web modules, and applications.

Web Modules

The Manage Web Modules portlet allows you to install new portlets from either a Web service or WAR file or to manage existing portlets, or view a list of portlet applications for a Web module. A Web module is a war file containing portlet applications.

Applications

The Manage Applications portlet allows you to enable a portlet application as a Web service or to manage existing portlet applications. It displays a list of all Web modules and associated portlet applications installed on WebSphere Portal Express.

You can view and change portlet application settings from this portlet. Tasks include renaming and deleting portlet applications, and modifying configuration parameters.

For information about developing portlet applications, refer to Developing portlets.

For information about Deploying J2EE resources with portlet application WAR files refer to that topic.

Portlets

The Manage Portlets portlet allows you to view or manage existing portlets, or enable portlets as Web services. It displays a list of all installed portlets. Manage Portlets allows you to view and change portlet settings. Tasks include renaming and deleting portlets, and adding, modifying, or deleting portlet configuration parameters.

For information about developing portlets and portlet applications refer to Developing portlets.

Web Services

The Web Service Configuration portlet allows you to set up WebSphere Portal Express for consuming Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and to configure Web service Producers on the Consumer side.

You cannot use the Web Service Configuration portlet for the following:

  • Provide Web services, that is make your portlets available to other systems such as remote Web services. To provide Web services as a Producer, use the Manage Portlets portlet.

  • Consume Web services, that is integrate Web services provided by a Producer as remote portlets. To consume Web services as a Consumer, use the Manage Web Modules portlet.

Web Clipping

The Web Clipping Editor allows you to identify and extract specific portions of a document for display in a portlet. You can choose to display an entire document by referencing a URL or tag only a key section.

 

Portal Access

Users and Groups

The Users and Groups portlet allows you to search for, edit, and delete existing users and groups. You can also create new users and groups and modify group membership.

Resource Permissions

Resource Permissions allows you to set access roles. You can assign access roles to associate users and groups with resources to determine the level of interaction a user can have with a resource.

Refer to Managing access, users, and groups and Roles for more information about the access control roles or the Resource Permissions portlet help for detailed instructions on assigning access roles.

User and Group Permissions

The User and Group Permissions portlet allows you to assign, view, and modify the roles and permissions that users and groups have on various resources.

Credential Vault

Credential Vault allows you to perform tasks specific to vault management. You can add or manage vault segments and vault slots.

See also Enabling security and Security Concepts for supported credential types and developing secure portlets.

Resource Policies

Resources Policies allows you to view and manage policies for efficient administration of resources. Policies apply rule-based expressions of business logic that control the user's experience with resources when specific conditions exist. From the Resource Policies portlet, you can view the list of policy types for resources. For a policy type, you can edit the policy settings, import and export policy definition files, and assign access to users who will need to work with the policy type. You can edit a policy type and refine it by creating one or more sub-policies. The policy editor makes it easy to select, create, and edit policy rules that consist of simple conditional statements.

 

Portal Settings

Global Settings

You can use the Global Settings portlet to define what the user sees in WebSphere Portal Express, including the default language and the Find link. The default language specified in Global Settings applies to all users when the language preference specified in their browser is not supported by WebSphere Portal Express.

For example, if WebSphere Portal Express supports English, German, and Spanish, with English as the default language in Global Settings, a user whose browser language preference is set to Italian would see English because Italian is not supported in this case. A user can also select a preferred language when registering with WebSphere Portal Express.

Global Settings also determines what users see when returning to WebSphere Portal Express on subsequent visits. For example, you can choose to display the most recently visited page rather than a default page. You can allow users themselves to choose what they see when logging on to WebSphere Portal Express, or if they see the default page or the most recently visited page. You can also determine a URL for the Find link.

URL Mapping

Create readable, user friendly URLs and map them to pages. You can publish these URLs externally and thereby make them available to your users.

Custom Unique Names

WebSphere Portal Express uses object IDs to identify resources unambiguously even between different portals. They consist of an extended alphanumeric string that may be difficult to remember. The Custom Unique Names portlet enables you to assign unique names to resources. You can select names that are easy to read and remember. These custom unique names make identification of resources easier than the object IDs assigned by WebSphere Portal Express, for example when porting resources from one portal to another.

Supported Markups

The Supported Markups portlet allows you to determine which markups are recognized. You can add, edit, activate or deactivate, and delete a markup. The installation default is HTML.

Removing or changing the HTML markup will cause access problems. The XML configuration interface must be used to recover from this error.

Supported Clients

With Supported Clients you can determine what types of devices can access WebSphere Portal Express.

You can add, edit, order, or delete clients. If you need to test a portlet with a device simulator you may need to add the user agent string of the device simulator to the WebSphere Portal Express client list. Consult the documentation included with the device simulator to determine the user agent strings the simulator supports and add these using the Supported Clients administration portlet.

Import XML

The Import XML portlet allows you to import an XML file. For example, from a staging server you can export pages and portlets into XML using the XML export button on Manage Pages and then use the Import XML portlet to import the configuration to a productivity server.

 

Portal Content

Document Libraries

Document libraries are used as the collection containers for Document Manager files, folders, and views. The Document Libraries administrative portlet enables you to create and maintain document libraries within Document Manager.

The Manage Document Libraries portlet is part of the WebSphere Portal Express standard installation. As an administrator, you can use the Manage Document Libraries portlet to configure the settings for document libraries, such as versioning, approvals workflow, and document locking. The settings you configure for a document library affect the way users can work in that particular library within Document Manager.

You can also use the Document Libraries portlet to perform other library management tasks, such as searching, creating, editing, and deleting libraries, as well as copying libraries and importing multiple files. You can also assign user access to document libraries using the Document Libraries portlet.

Refer to the Configuring the Document Libraries portlet topic for more information about configuring the Manage Document Libraries portlet.

Web Content Libraries

Add, edit, copy and delete Web content libraries to better manage your Web content. You can also specify access control settings for the library itself and the types of content it contains.

Syndicators

Create, edit and delete syndicators used to replicate content between Web Content Management environments. Syndicators identify the libraries that are available for replication by subscribers. You can define which libraries are available for syndication and change the order that libraries are syndicated.

Subscribers

Create, edit and delete subscribers used to replicate content between Web Content Management environments. Subscribers are associated with a syndicator and receive updates from all libraries that are specified by the syndicator.

 

Search Administration

Manage Search

The Manage Search portlet allows you to create and manage search services, search collections, and search scopes. Searchable resources include various document types, for example HTML and text documents. WebSphere Portal Express sites can also be indexed and searched. For more information about configuring and administrating searches, refer to Portal Search.

 

Portal Analysis

Frequent Users

The Frequent Users portlet shows how many users have been logged in for the past 90 days.

Enable Tracing

The Enable Tracing portlet allows you to enable or disable the tracing logs.

 

Virtual Portals

Manage Virtual Portals

The Virtual Portal Manager portlet allows you to create, list, modify, and delete virtual portals. When you create a virtual portal, it is filled with the initial default content for virtual portals.

For more information about virtual portals and how to plan for them and work with them refer to Multiple virtual portals. For more information about how to work with Virtual Portal Manager, refer to the portlet help.

 

Other portlets that are useful for administration

There are other portlets not accessible from Administration that are also useful in administering WebSphere Portal Express.

Site Map

IBM WebSphere Portal Express provides the Site Map portlet. It serves two purposes:

Properties

The Properties portlet allows you to modify properties on pages and portlets. You can access this portlet when creating a new page, editing an existing page, or from the Manage pages administration portlet. For more information on how to configure properties, see Overview of managing pages.

Current limitations for the Properties portlet include:

  • The list of shareable pages displayed by the Properties portlet is limited to those pages that the user can navigate to. As a result, a user might not be able to create explicitly derived pages from some shareable pages.

  • A user must have at least Editor privileges on a page to be able to edit the properties on that page. Privileged users will not be able to edit a page's properties or edit personalization rules, because Personalization rules are part of a page's properties.

Portlet Palette

The Portlet Palette allows you to add portlets to the page for quick and easy page customization. You can drag a portlet to the page from the Portlet Palette to add the portlet to the page. For more information on using the Portlet Palette, see Adding portlets to a page with the Portlet Palette.

 

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