Placing Portlets in My Portal

Place portlets in My Portals.

What Is a Portlet?

The portlet allows you to place Garoon applications as small content in the top page (portal).
Different kinds of portlets for Garoon applications (for Scheduler, Bulletin Board, and more) are provided. System administrators may also have created their own portlets.

Illustration: Image of a portal and the portlets

For details of portlets, refer to Portlet Types and Settings.

Changing My Portal Layouts

Change the My Portal layout.

Steps:
  1. On the "Portal" screen, open the portal to change its layout, and then click "Portal settings" on options.

    Image of a portal setting action link

  2. On the screen for My 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. You cannot set the column numbers and the ratio of the widths in the upper half.
    When "None" is selected, the ratio of columns is automatically set to fit the placed portlet.
    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
    For details on each items, refer to My Portal details screen.

Adding Portlets to My Portal

Add portlets to My Portals.
You can do so by dragging and dropping portlets.

Steps:
  1. On the "Portal" screen, open the portal to add portlets, and then click "Portal settings" on options.

    Image of a portal setting action link

  2. On the screen for My Portal details, select the portlet and drag it to the destination.

    Image showing where to deploy the Portlet

    For details of portlets, refer to Portlet Types and Settings.

    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

Moving Portlets in My Portal

Move portlets to another column.

Steps:
  1. On the "Portal" screen, open the portal to move portlets, and then click "Portal settings" on options.

    Image of a portal setting action link

  2. On the screen for My Portal details, select the portlet to move and drag it to the destination.

    Image showing where to deploy the Portlet

Deleting Portlets Placed in My Portals

Delete the portlets placed in My Portals.

Steps:
  1. On the "Portal" screen, open the My portal to delete portlets, and then click "Portal settings" on options.

    Image of a portal setting action link

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

    Image of a delete action link

  3. Click Yes on "Delete" screen.

Initializing My Portal

When you initialize My Portal, all portlets are unaligned.
However, depending on your system administrator settings, initializing the My Portal may leave some portlets.

Steps:
  1. On the "Portal" screen, open the portal to initialize, and then click "Portal settings" on options.

    Image of a portal setting action link

  2. On the screen for portal details, click the item to initialize My Portal.

    Image shows the initializing My Portals action link

  3. Click Yes on the initializing My Portal screen.