Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Creating a custom launch page

You can configure an authoring portlet to use a launch page of your own design instead of the default user interface.

A custom launch page can either be a JSP or HTML file. It must be stored in the WAR file directory for the Authoring portlet: portal_server_root/installedApps/WCM_Authoring_UI_PA_xxxxxxx.ear/PA_xxxxxxx.war/jsp/html, where xxxxxxx is unique to your installation.

You use remote actions to call different views and functions from with the authoring portlet's user interface. You can also use the Web content API to add other functions to your launch page.

Once you have created a custom launch page, you then configure your authoring portlet to use the custom launch page instead of the default authoring portlet user interface.

A custom "create and view content" launch page

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<tr><td>
<a href="?wcmAuthoringAction=new&type=com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.WCM_Content">
Create new Content</a>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="?wcmAuthoringAction=openmainview&view=contentbytitle">
Open content by title</a>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="?wcmAuthoringAction=openmainview&view=contentbysitearea">
Open content by site area</a>
</td></tr>
</table>