Custom Portlet Banner

I want to be able to assign custom portlet banners to certain portlets. has anyone done this before of are there any examples of this around?

Randy,
What do you mean by "portlet banner"? The tiny bar above each portlet? You can disable portlet titlebars and then display anything you like in the portlet, including a banner. Or are you talking about header portlets? You can use Content Server's "branding" feature to allow a single portlet to be used in multiple locations - on the subportal for mypages, or on a community - and manage its content from content server separately, using PT_ tags (which are dynamic) to control some aspects of the portlet's content while still making it easy to manage. Finally, you can serve up a header portlet from a JSP / ASP page and make it fully dynamic.
- David

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I'm deploing some portlets using PLSQL. Those portlets work's fine. Now i want to grant restricted access to this portlets. The best i can do is function is_runnable return false to users that i don't want to show my portlet.
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if wwctx_api.get_userid!= 'PORTAL30' then return false;
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Can i use portal funcionality of grant access to, by example applications components or pages or content areas to restric access to my portlets ?
Thanks
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I realize that this is an old thread, but on the chance there are others like me looking into how to restrict access to custom porlets, I thought I would venture a reply.
I looked at the current online docs for for Portal Security Services. If you have a need to get down in the weeds these docs will show you what you need to know. But there is a very SIMPLE way to restrict access to your new portlet.
After you have your new PL/SQL or JAVA porlet in place, just create a new Portal Page using the wizard. Make it a plain page, no banner. Add your custom portlet to the new page. Then PUBLISH THIS NEW PAGE AS A PORTLET. Instead of adding your original portlet to other pages, add this "wrapper page" instead. You can use the grant access tab for the wrapper page to restrict access of the portlet to specific users and groups.
pmw

Custom-portlet-mode doesn't show

All,
I created a sample JSR 286 portlet and selected to show about mode (keeping view and edit) default. wizard creates a default about.jsp. However when i added another tag for preview, link to pick preview mode doesn't show in the top right corner (view actions menu) of portlet. Any idea what i am doing wrong.
Thanks,
Prasad
<supports>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
<portlet-mode>edit</portlet-mode>
<portlet-mode>about</portlet-mode> <-- works....
<portlet-mode>preview</portlet-mode> <-- doesn't work
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<custom-portlet-mode>
<portlet-mode>about</portlet-mode>
</custom-portlet-mode>
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<portlet-mode>preview</portlet-mode>
</custom-portlet-mode>
Edited by: Prasad on Dec 7, 2012 8:58 AM

After i de and register again the portlet producer it showed up.
However the content of this is being displayed in a completely different page. Do you know how i can keep the response within the same portlet.
thanks,
Prasad.

Adding a change password link in a custom portlet

Hi,
Does anyone know how to add a change password link in a custom portlet? the custom nav UI we have does not show the my account link, we want to hide this complexity for external users, but we still want them to be able to change their password.
I am expirimenting with using the following link, which seems to work fine, but was wondering if there was a more elegant way to do it using pt: tags?
<pt:transformer pt:fixurl="off" xmlns:pt='http://www.plumtree.com/xmlschemas/ptui/'/>Change]http://servername/portal/server.pt?space=ChangePassword&&control=EditorStart&editorType=10">ChangePassword</a><pt:transformer pt:fixurl="on" xmlns:pt='http://www.plumtree.com/xmlschemas/ptui/'/>
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Hrm... this does get ugly... This has come up a few times w/ our users as well, so I am definitely interested in seeing what can be done.
I don't see any sort of pre-built tag to let you access this directly. To your point, I only found the general account editing / access link - not one directly to password reset.
Couple of questions / notes
I tried your option and while it works, I'm concerned by the redirect back to the account page. That seems to violate your requirements on hiding the account options info. When the user hits finish / cancel they're taken to the main "My Account" page.Have you considered securing the other activity spaces so they're not visible from the "My Account" page? Then you could use the built-in tags. Not ideal, I know, but if you're going to be routed back to that screen anyway once you finish/cancel your password change...Have you considered just writing the password reset funtionality into your app? I did this a while back and it was actually pretty simple. Then you can have complete control over the behavior.How I wrote password reset...
You know the userid in this case, so things are MUCH easier (no need to search to find the specific user)Assumption: users are stored in the plumtree database auth sourceUse the native API (com.plumtree.server). I don't know if you need to impersonate a full admin or not... my code doesGet a handle on the userReset the password with the "SetPassword" methodStore the changeSemi-functional code below - note how you'd never want to store your admin userid / password in here like this (or have it blank...)
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Oracle doc says Custom Portlet Mode are not supported

Is it true that WebCenter does not support JSR 286 custom portlet modes unless they are predefined Oracle-PDK portlet modes?
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17904_01/webcenter.1111/e10148/jpsdg_java_adv.htm#BABEAHHD
"If you are coding portlets to JSR 286, then you can declare custom portlet modes in the portlet.xml file that map to the extended modes offered by PDK-Java, or to accommodate any other functionality you may want to provide."
"Arbitrary custom modes that a third party or custom portlet producer offers are ignored and therefore not supported."

WebCenter does not support custom portlet modes. I've tested and answered this.
Oracle WebCenter supports a fixed set of custom portlet modes defined by oracle. This is bad.
Custom portlet modes are a JSR 286 standard. How is it possible that WebCenter does not implement it.
Therefore, it you have a custom portlet mode such as "viewBooksMode", then you must change every mention of it in your project to "about" or "preview" or "help" or "print".

Custom portlet mode-config

In my Portlet class NewsPortlet i am overriding the doDispatch() method of superclass GenericPortlet if the portlet mode is Config. Like this
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super.doDispatch(req, res);
The above porltet is standalone deployable war file.
This is exactly as per the JSR 168 spec for the custom config mode.
Do I need to choose some special themes/layout to get the config mode icon on my portlet or do i need to create my custom theme/layout and do it?

Hello,
I don't believe custom portlet modes are supported by the current versions of WLP for JSR168 portlets. Is it possible to map your custom mode onto one of the supported modes "edit", "view" or "help"?
Kevin

CUSTOM PORTLET HEADER/FOOTER

I need to create custom portlet containers, with custom header, footer and border.(Specifically I need rounded edges without the border.) The portal style editor supports header customization only, which is not enough in my case. Is my path to follow to create my own ContainerRenderer (subclassing DefaultContainerRenderer) and to overwrite renderShowHeader() and renderShowFooter() to staisfy my needs? If I do this, how would I render the minimize, customize, etc links in my own header? If I have third party portlets, I can set their providers to use my container renderer, but I am not sure about the effects of it (eg: the third party provider can't use custom containerrenderer). What other restirictions do I introduce with this solution? Are there any other ways to get the same effect?

Jens is referring to the PL/SQL API
PORTAL.WW_PRO_API_PROVIDER.PORTLET_RUNTIME_RECORD
 /**
 * A record structure containing the details for a portlet during runtime.
 *
 * A portlet_runtime_record structure is passed to the show_portlet
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 *
 * The provider should set the values for caching_key, caching_period,
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 *
 * @field portlet_template a string, representing the HTML to render the
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 procedure show
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Personally, I haven't been able to get it to work either.
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Roark

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Hi Per A Jorgensen,
I see what you mean. I just deployed a simple portlet which displays the user-agent header property.
Here are my observations:
1. If you access the page as user1 from Mozilla, I see the following:
Browser Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3
2. If I now access this page from IE, as user1, then I still see my browser agent as:
Browser Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3
3. If I now access this page from IE, as user2, then i see the following details:
Browser Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3
4. Now I access the same page from Mozilla (after logging out of user1) as user2, I see the following:
Browser Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3
Hmm.. interesting.. it looks like, whoever access the provider first, fixes the user-agent. I need to investigate more into it to find out information as to why this is happening.
In the mean-time, you can be rest assured that as long as you dont have multiple user's accessing the portlet as the same user, you will get the correct information.
thanks,
Harsha

Linking from Custom Store Banner to an article

Hi,
We have banners in our Custom Store and we'd like to link from the Banners to specific pages in certain folios.
The DPS documentation says we should be able to use this kind of link structure:
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So where our app's URL scheme is : com.xxxx.yyy
and our folioname is: Financial Mail 17012014
and our article name is: Article on page 6
we've constructed a link like this:
<a href='com.xxxx.yyy://v1/folio/Financial%20Mail%2017012014/Article%20on%20page%206'>URL scheme</a>
Unfortunately we get this alert box: Error We're sorry. This article is currently not available for this device.
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<a href='com.xxxx.yyy://v1/slot/Store'>Store</a>
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We figured this one out.
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Adding Customer Portlets To Custom Providers

Current Situation
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Hi,
I´ve developed various PL/SQL portlets with custom settings.
When I create the transport set dump everthing works fine.
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Edited by: José Antonio Sánchez on 20-ene-2011 12:57

People Portlet Banner

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I tried editing the "Search Results Page" but that page only controls results from the Search portlet.
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Scheduler and File Upload portlets packaged with the Portal PDK.
You gave me an idea on where to look for the Portal Home Page
source. I can't find it using Navigator. I have found and
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Bug: Customizing Convergence banner for a specific domain does not work

Hi,
I'm trying to customize the banner for a specific domain, I was following the steps from the documentation but I found that there is a bug relate: Bug #6749263 And I tried to find if the bug was already resolved in convergence 1.0-7.01 and the search in bugs.sun.com gets nothing.
Does anybody knows if the bug was fixed in convergence 1.0-7.01?
Thanks in advanced.

ofonseca wrote:
I'm trying to customize the banner for a specific domain, I was following the steps from the documentation but I found that there is a bug relate: Bug #6749263 And I tried to find if the bug was already resolved in convergence 1.0-7.01 and the search in bugs.sun.com gets nothing.The bug hasn't been fixed (according to the bug notes).
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I'm investigating the process of submitting documents to the KD using an approval step and was hoping to get some feedback on how others do it.
Rather than post a laundry list of the problems I'm encountering I was hoping I could just explain my situation (slightly simplified).
We have 10 departments in the organization.
Each department has their own KD folder and 3 additional subfolders. (40 folders in total)
Each department has a document approver who can only approve for their particular set of 4 folders.
All users need to be able to submit a document for approval to any of the folders.
Maintaining our KD folder taxonomy is critical to us and we want to prevent approvers from adding/deleting folders.
I've attempted to solve this problem using collaboration and also with the KD Submit/Approval Utility & Edit mode however there were restrictions which prevented them from meeting our needs.
This process seems to basic and its so frustrating coming to dead ends with every approach I've taken.
If anyone can provide guidance I would be very grateful!
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Geoff
Geoff Garcia
Producer, Enterprise Portal
March of Dimes National Office
914 997.4275
[email protected]

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If you this works it would be good to know at least, even though it would be a hack.

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into a profile using html or php. I know I would have to load it up
on to a server and link it from there. I've tried but I keep
getting error messages. When I looked at how the html is put
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bit lost.
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