Entitlements and portal menu

Hi,
we created an Entitlement based in a role that compares a Session
Property Set's property value to "someValue".
We applied that Entitlement to a book within the portal desktop and
checked the View capability.
A Pageflow portlet in the header of the shell sets "someValue" or
"someOtherValue" in the Http Session according to the drop-down
selection submitted by the user.
We expected that when "someOtherValue" is submitted and set in the
Http Session the book should not appear in the portal menu.
But the book gets hidden only after the next interaction with the
portal (a click in some menu item, a refresh in the browser etc).
- What is the moment when the Portal engine applies Entitlements to
resources?
- How to refresh the entitled resources collection (books and pages)
after setting some value in the Http Session?
Thanks,
Eduardo.
Edited by: Eduardo Gouvea on Oct 2, 2008 10:16 AM

Hello Eduardo,
I am no expert in the portal lifecycle but I can see that the entitlements were evaluated and then the pageflow executed so it seems like a solution would be to send a redirect from your pageflow after you set the property that effects visitor entitlements: http://beehive.apache.org/docs/1.0.2/netui/apidocs/javadoc/org/apache/beehive/netui/pageflow/annotations/Jpf.Forward.html#redirect()
This use case is similar to logging in a user. After you authenticate a user you should always redirect back to the portal because who knows what is left over from evaluating entitlements before you authenticate them... the user could have been logged in as someone else prior to another login.

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Increasing the portal session timeout:
The portal session timeout is controlled in two places, and both settings should match. On the portal virtual directory in IIS, edit the configuration and increase the timeout setting to 240 (minutes). Then, edit the portal application’s web.config file (d:\portal\ptportal\6.0\webapp\portal\web\) and increase the sessionState Timeout variable to 240. Editting the config file will require you to restart the services before you see the change.
Initial setting of the MyPage refresh interval:
The initial setting will need to be done by a SQL script in order to apply it to all existing users. The Default Profile should also be updated so that all new user synched from AD will have this setting applied automatically.
/* Delete refresh interval settings for all users first so that there are no conflicts on the inserts */
DELETE FROM portaldbuser.ptprefs WHERE prefname = 'intMyPageRefreshRate'
/* Insert desired page refresh setting for all users */
INSERT INTO portaldbuser.ptprefs (userid,gadgetid,prefclassid,prefobjectid,prefname,prefvaluetype,prefvalue,pagenumber) SELECT objectid,0,0,0,'intMyPageRefreshRate',3,180,0 FROM portaldbuser.ptusers
From Administration, access the Default Profiles utility. Check the Default Profile entry and click on the Edit Profile Layout link. Click on the My Account link in the Portal Settings portlet and then on the Display Options link on the next page. In the Page and Portlet Settings, update the Your My Page will be updated: setting to 4 hours. Click Finish twice to return to Administration.
Updating the MyPage refresh interval:
To update the setting just modify the insert portion of the SQL script. Change the prefvalue number (180) to the desired timeout in minutes and rerun both statements of the script.
The Default Profile should be also be modified per the instructions above.
I hope this helps...
-tom

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We are trying to unify our directory services.
At present, there two directory servers, one for iPlanet messaging 5.2 and another for Portal server 6.0.
Messaging's Directory server is v5.1 and Portal's Directory server is v5.2. Their BaseDN is same.
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local.ugldapbasedn
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local.ugldapbinddn
local.ugldaphost
local.ugldapport
etc.
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