Portlet Preferences at the instance level

Is there any way to specify the portlet preferences at the instance level using
Workshop? Currently I have to go to the desktop and set my instance level preferences.
I would much rather set them during development using workshop and have the desktop
read those in.
Thanks
Regards,
Kunal

Can you clear on what you mean by instance level.
I would think this way
1)using workshop You created a portal, and n number of portlets.
2)you can set preferences for each portlet in workshop
3)you create a desktop and change the preference as you like
Did that sound related

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For example, I would like to deploy a weather portlet where the only
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Hi Chad,
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http://e-docs.bea.com/wlp/docs92/portlets/building.html#wp1061940
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"Overview of Portlet Preferences"
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<Chad McGowan> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Excellent, thanks for the clarification.
I've download version 9.2 of the portal server and I could not find a way
to set portlet preferences in the admin console.
Are there any tutorials or instructions on how to install and configure a
third-party jsr-168 portlet in 9.2? I want to install the portlet, then
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Hi folks,
We have observed some behaviour which seems kind of strange and was
hoping someone at BEA or anybody else for that matter could provide us
with some insight into what we are missing.
When defining portlet preferences in the admin tool, if we define the
preference on a portlet in the library, the preference gets persisted
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Dennis

I ran a simple test. I put the following line of code in a JSP and pointed a portlet at it:
PortletContextFactory.createPortletContext.setSettingValue(SettingType.Portlet, "foo", "bar");
I put this portlet in three places:
1) A MyPage
2) A Community (id 234)
3) Another Community (id 235)
When I looked in the database in the PTPREFS table, I was really surprised by what I saw. It created three rows as follows:
PREFNAME PREFVALUE PREFOBJECTID PREFCLASSID
foo      bar       0            0
foo      bar       234          512
foo      bar       235          512Prior to G6, if my memory serves me correctly, a portlet pref could be set on one community and read on another. I'm not as certain about this point, but I think it could also be set on a MyPage and read on a community (and vice versa).
If you wanted page-specific or community-specific portlet preferences, you could always append the page id or community id to the pref name. However, following this undocumented design change, there's no way AFAIK to remove the new community-specific nature of portlet prefs.
Bug or feature? Hard to say. I'd like to get the official word from BEA on whether this was intentional or not and either way, could somebody please update the documentation ? If there's been a major change in the design of the pref model, there ought to be at least a little documentation on it.
Chris Bucchere | bdg | [email protected] | http://www.thebdgway.com
Edited by bucchere at 02/12/2007 8:47 PM

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Since the Mobility preference could be managed at the computer list level, it has effect both on the clients' local and network accounts. I tried to manage the preference for a computer list that contains clients with only local accounts and set it to "Synchronize account for offline use".
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manage the preference for a computer list that
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I saw no effect on clients' local account,
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managing the Mobility preference at the computer
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How to change portlet preferences

Can somebody tell me how can I change some prefrences that are defined in portlet.xml. So that if the user update this preferece it will be updated for all the portlet instances for that user. For example
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<name>Pref</name>
<value>something</value>
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here the value is something for every instance of that portlet. However I want to know if there is any way that this could be modified at user level and when the user change it to somethingelse this value will show on every portlet instance for that specific user. In IBM websphere this can be done using the <config-param> tag instead of preference.

Hi Neeraj,
We have a requirement to set the portlet preferences for al the users.
Based on the solution you gave, I set preference value in config mode and those preferences value are set for all the users.
I succusfully implemented edit_config mode on Oracle Portal and I shared my code snippets at
http://wsrp-jsr168.blogspot.com/
I hope this is very helpful.
--Somesh

Sharing portlet preferences among users

Hello,
Is it possible to share portlet preferences among users? So that the
portlet preferences would be stored per portlet instance, and would be
the same for every user?
If this is not possible with Java portlets (JSR-168), can it be done
with other portlet types (JSP portlet, page flow portlet), using the
PortletPreferences API?
The JSR-168 specification says:
"Portlet Specification assumes preference attributes are user specific,
it does not make any provision at API level or at semantic level for
sharing preference attributes among users. If a portal/portlet-container
implementation provides an extension mechanism for sharing preference
attributes, it should be well documented how the sharing of preference
attributes works."

Betsy,
Does WLP provide a way to allow a user to store only a subset of all
his portlet preferences (using only JSR 168 api) ?
My aim is to try to create a JSR 168 compliant portlet where few of
the preferences are allowed to modified by the user (in the edit
mode), while all other preferences may be modified only by a portal
admin (thru admin view). However, the PortletPreferences.store()
method seems to store values of all current preferences for the
particular user, with the result that future changes by the admin are
not reflected for any user who has already customized his
preferences.You can let the admin propagate changes to the user via admin tools.
There is an option in admin tools to do that.
Setting the preference <read-only> attribute to 'true' does not help
either, as the store method still attempts to store the value and
then throws a ReadOnlyException.In this case, the setValue/setValues/reset and not the store will throw
the ReadOnlyException.
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setting only those which have been explicitly set using
PortletPreferences.setValue(key, value)?The implementation does not keep track of changes explicitly in memory.
Even if it keeps track of changes, I'm not sure if this would solve your
use case.
Will BEA be changing this in future releases, and is there a
work-around for now?The suggested approach is to let admins propagate changes to users.
Subbu
>
Thanks, Betsy
Although WLP does not support the notion of sharing preferences,
WLP lets you manage preferences in a hierarchy via the admin tools.
When an admin sets preferences on a portlet, as long as users don't
customize their portlets, all users get the same portlet instances,
and hence share preferences.
Subbu
Bob said the following on 02/12/2004 04:08 AM:
Hello,
Is it possible to share portlet preferences amongusers? So that the
portlet preferences would be stored per portletinstance, and would be
the same for every user?
If this is not possible with Java portlets(JSR-168), can it be done
with other portlet types (JSP portlet, page flowportlet), using the
PortletPreferences API?
The JSR-168 specification says:
"Portlet Specification assumes preferenceattributes are user specific,
it does not make any provision at API level or atsemantic level for
sharing preference attributes among users. If aportal/portlet-container
implementation provides an extension mechanism forsharing preference
attributes, it should be well documented how thesharing of preference
attributes works."

The security level is set to High

Windows 2008R2 terminal Server
Office 2013
Adobe Acrobat XI update 9
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Have disabled every office macro and security setting - not a fix
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I cannot see how to give Adobe any more trust

Solved
I was running Office in a 'RunVirtual' environment. This man explains it best
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Unable to read Portlet Preferences set via Portal Admin

I have a portlet which should read the preference values set in the portal admin by an administrator.
I am running the portal as .portal and not in the streaming mode.
After setting the values in the portal administration I always click on propogate to all instances. But when I run the portal in workshop in debugger mode it is not reading the values as stored in Portal admin but it is showing the values which were stored while creating the portlet in workshop in portlet designer.
Please help how to make the portlet read the preference values stored via the portal admin console if the user visits the portal as an anonymous user. Any help is greatly appreciated on this subject. I have searched everywhere but have no solution.
I am using Weblogic Platform 8.1 sp5
Thanks
rj

The portlet preferences set in portal administration reflect only in streaming mode, since streaming mode uses the database that is used by portal administration. If you wish to see the portlet preferences set in portal adminstration, try running in streaming mode.
But when you run portal from workshop ( which would be file mode), it wouldn't pickup portlet preferences created via portal administration.
Note: The easiest way to distinguish a streaming mode from file mode is presence of 'appmanager' in URL.
eg: http://localhost:7001/sampleportal/appmanager/MyPortal/desktop1
Seenu.

How to retain portlet preferences when undeploying application

Hi,
we have a requirement where we configure portlet preferences for each portlet instance in a page through admin console.
we use these preference values to retrieve content from VCR and display in portlet jsp.
The problem here is when we undeploy application and install it again all the preferences configured in the admin console will vanish.
Is there any way to retain these values even when we undeploy application.
Thanks

Hello,
There are two ways you could do this: put the preference values in your .portlet files or use the propagation tool to move the customized portlet instances to your new deployment.
Putting the preference values in your .portlet file can't be done from the administration tools-- it must be done from the IDE or manually editing the files-- so I'm guessing it would not solve your problem.
For more information on using the propagation tool, see:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13155_01/wlp/docs103/prodOps/propTool.html
Kevin

Portlet Preferences

Hi,
We are observing that when we set the portlet preferences from a JSP page which is included in the normal view of a portlet, the preferences are not saved. However, when we use the same code in a preference page, the settings are saved. Can any one please confirm the portlet preferences can only be saved from the preferences page?
portletResponse.setSettingValue(SettingType.Admin,
"tempVal", "hellooooo");
Thanks.

Hi there,
From your snippet of code below, you are seting an administrative preference (SettingType.Admin) this would be set up on the object at the administrative level. You might try using a different type either SettingType.Portlet or SettingType.CommunityPortlet.

Portlet Preference

I have a community that has 2 pages, each having an instance of a portlet i created. I want to give these portlet instances 2 distinct preferences, so i used the portlet preferences to do it. However, if i set the portlet preference of a portlet instance, say on page A, and i check on page B, the portlet instance on page B detects the preferences that i set on page A and applies it to itself.
Is there a way that i could set distinct preference settings on these two pages having the instances of one portlet? How will i do it?

I ran a simple test. I put the following line of code in a JSP and pointed a portlet at it:
PortletContextFactory.createPortletContext.setSettingValue(SettingType.Portlet, "foo", "bar");
I put this portlet in three places:
1) A MyPage
2) A Community (id 234)
3) Another Community (id 235)
When I looked in the database in the PTPREFS table, I was really surprised by what I saw. It created three rows as follows:
PREFNAME PREFVALUE PREFOBJECTID PREFCLASSID
foo      bar       0            0
foo      bar       234          512
foo      bar       235          512Prior to G6, if my memory serves me correctly, a portlet pref could be set on one community and read on another. I'm not as certain about this point, but I think it could also be set on a MyPage and read on a community (and vice versa).
If you wanted page-specific or community-specific portlet preferences, you could always append the page id or community id to the pref name. However, following this undocumented design change, there's no way AFAIK to remove the new community-specific nature of portlet prefs.
Bug or feature? Hard to say. I'd like to get the official word from BEA on whether this was intentional or not and either way, could somebody please update the documentation ? If there's been a major change in the design of the pref model, there ought to be at least a little documentation on it.
Chris Bucchere | bdg | [email protected] | http://www.thebdgway.com
Edited by bucchere at 02/12/2007 8:47 PM

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