CUSTOM PORTLET HEADER/FOOTER

Question

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?

Answer 1

Jens is referring to the PL/SQL API
PORTAL.WW_PRO_API_PROVIDER.PORTLET_RUNTIME_RECORD
<P> /**
<BR> * A record structure containing the details for a portlet during runtime.
<BR> *
<BR> * A portlet_runtime_record structure is passed to the show_portlet
<BR> * procedure of provider implementations.
<BR> *
<BR> * The provider should set the values for caching_key, caching_period,
<BR> * caching_level and caching_invalidation in the show_portlet procedure
<BR> * if caching is enabled for the portlet.
<BR> *
<BR> * @field portlet_template a string, representing the HTML to render the
<BR> * portlet's custom header and footer. The format
<BR> * is as follows:<br>
<BR> * <header> #body# <footer><br>
<BR> * This field is available with Oracle9<i>i</i>AS
<BR> * Portal 9.0.2 or later.
<P> procedure show
p_portlet_record in out portal.wwpro_api_provider.portlet_runtime_record
<P>Personally, I haven't been able to get it to work either.
<P>Thanks,
<P>Roark