Deploying Portlets

Place portlets in portals.

Changing Portal Layouts

Steps:

  1. Click the Administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Portals.

  6. On the screen for a portal list, click the portal name for the portal to change its layout.

  7. On the screen for portal details, select a layout from the "Layout" dropdown list, and click "Apply".

    Select the column numbers and the ratio of the widths to place in lower half.
    Image of setting the layout of the portal
    If the lower "C" or "D" already has portlets, you cannot select the bottom: 1 column layout.
    Screen where the bottom 1 column cannot be selected
    If you have a portlet placed in the lower half, you cannot select a layout with fewer columns than the number of columns that the portlet has.
    Image showing the layout that has fewer number of columns cannot be selected

Adding Portlets

Add portlets to portals. You can do so by dragging and dropping portlets.
The guideline for the maximum number of portlets placed to one portal is 20. Placing portlets that put excessive loads on the server or a large number of portlets on portals may cause a heavy load on Garoon.

Steps:

  1. Click the Administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Portals.

  6. On the "Portals" screen, select a portal.

  7. On the screen for portal details, select the portlet to add and drag it to the destination.

    Image showing where to deploy the Portlet

    You can filter the portlets to display on the list.
    To filter portlets, click the filter name on the left and select the filter you want.
    Image of filtering the portlets

    a): The filter appears when you have set HTML portlets or PHP portlets.

    B): The Portlet group name is displayed when you are setting it.

Moving Portlets

Move portlets to another column.

Steps:

  1. Click the Administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Portals.

  6. On the "Portals" screen, select a portal.

  7. On the screen for portal details, select the portlet to move and drag it to the destination.

    Image showing where to deploy the Portlet

Deleting Portlets Placed in Portals

Delete portlets that are placed.

Steps:

  1. Click the Administration menu icon (gear icon) in the header.

  2. Click System settings.

  3. Select "Application settings" tab.

  4. Click Portal.

  5. Click Portals.

  6. On the screen for a portal list, select a portal.

  7. On the screen for portal details, click "Delete" on the gear icon for the portlet to delete.

    Image of a delete action link

  8. Click Yes on "Delete" screen.