How to create new page in wlp in runtime

Question

hi,
How to create portal pages in run time (not at the admin console) give an option to the end users to create pages and configure it.
Thanks
Manu

Answer 1

Hi Manu
1) Can we entitle the page created to display to some users.
You mean the "Page(s)" created by the End User when he clicks on Customize link. If so, note that this page will be available ONLY to that user. There is no other special entitlements to be assigned to. Because every user who customizes desktop will have his own set of Books/Pages/Portlets in the backend Portal Database schema. BUT if you want to set Entitlements to the Pages created by the Adminstrator, then YES, you can always set Entitlements to that Page, so that only specific set of Users, Roles (users belong toRoles) can access those Pages.
2) Can we change the hyperlink of the page to some other external page.
I am not clear with this question. When we create a Page from WorkshopIDE or Portal Admin Console or through DVT, first thing is, this page will have a unique page definition label. Now assume this page is part of some Book. So When this portal (or deskop) is rendered, Portal Framework Look and Feel files, will iterate through list of all Books and for each Book list of all Pages and construct the Menu(s) which are nohting but Hyperlinks. During this process, the hyperlink will be appended with the definition labels of each Page etc which is retrieved from Database (or .portal xml file incase of filemode). So you cannot change the hyperlink to point to someother page. Worst case, if you really want, then you need to modify the portal framework menu rendering code, to change the urls for specific page. Say PageA should be reidrected to PageB. So in your custom menu rendering code, when you hit the PageA, there check for page def label of PageA and if it matches, then add a different page def label say for PageB definition label. This is complex, but can be achieved. But my very first question is why do you want to do this and what is your exact usecase.
Note that you can always generate dynamically Links for any Portal Pages using render url tags or APIs (PostbackURL, GenericURL etc). You can have this kind of code in any JSP or Pageflows.
PostbackURL homeURL = PostbackURL.createPostbackURL(request, response);
homeURL.addParameter(PostbackURL.PAGE_LABEL_PARAM, "page_card_services_1"); //page_card_services_1 is a page def label of some other page that I want to redirect to
3) Can we integrate the page creation to the BPEL workflow.
BPEL Workflow is nothing but a WebServices. Using CustomCode, this may be possible. One way I can think of is like this. First you need to have code/logic in some Pageflow or utility class to call BPEL Workflow. As mentioned first you need to create a WebServices client JAR for this BPEL WebServices. Then add this jar to the web-content/web-inf/lib folder. Then in pageflow or utility class, get the Service, Port and invoke process method on this BPEL and pass some input parameters. Now BPEL will do some internal processing and will return the page definition labels in the response XML object based on input parameters. Then in the Pagelfow or utility class, from this response object, extract page def label and use the above code snippet to redirect to that page. This should work.
4) is there a way allow users to create new portlets from ucm and add content to the portlets.
When we allow customization for end users, usually they can choose from list of Look and Feels, create or edit Books/Pages. They cannot create Brand New Portlets. From existing list of Portlets, they can add or remove them from any Page. NOW, if you use latest WLP 10.3.2, you can consume WebCenter ADF Portlets using WSRP. Also I guess there is a plug in for UCM with WLP 10.3.2. I did not work in this area so do not have full details. But assume that you already have some UCM Portlets integrated into your portal application by adminstrator. Then End User can choose to add these UCM Portlets to the pages that he cretaes. NOW coming to the content of the Portlets, this is something you can handle through Portlet Preferences. Considerr default out of box WLP original pageflow portlets. You can have some search criteria in a content portlet. This search criteria can be modified using Edit icon ie. Portlet Preferences. So user can customize the search criteria and get the results he is interested in.
Thanks
Ravi Jegga