Portlet Preferences set by admin only

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to allow an admin to set a portlet
preference for a single instance of the portlet. In IBM and Jetspeed,
this is possible.
For example, I would like to deploy a weather portlet where the only
preference is the zip code for the weather forecast. I don't want each
user to personalize this, I only want to allow the portal admin to set
the zip code and then have that used by all end users of the portlet.
Is this possible in WebLogic?

Hi Chad,
The admin tools have a Portlet Preferences page in both the library and
for each portlet instance in a portal desktop. I can see these pages in my
test environment. Let me know if you have any problems when you try this
stuff:
"Java Portlets"
"Java portlets are based on the JSR 168 specification ..."
http://e-docs.bea.com/wlp/docs92/portlets/building.html#wp1061940
"Managing Portlets Using the Administration Console"
http://e-docs.bea.com/wlp/docs92/portlets/portlet_org.html#wp1007211
"Overview of Portlet Preferences"
http://e-docs.bea.com/wlp/docs92/portlets/portlet_org.html#wp1013151
<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
set the preference from the admin console.
Thanks for your help!

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Betsy,
Does WLP provide a way to allow a user to store only a subset of all
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My aim is to try to create a JSR 168 compliant portlet where few of
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>
Thanks, Betsy
Although WLP does not support the notion of sharing preferences,
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Bob said the following on 02/12/2004 04:08 AM:
Hello,
Is it possible to share portlet preferences amongusers? So that the
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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,
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sharing preference attributes among users. If aportal/portlet-container
implementation provides an extension mechanism forsharing preference
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2000 - 3000 in the future, it will be incredibly tedious for the portal admin
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TIA
Martin

Thanks Subbu,
That worked.....can you keep us updated on any movement with the SPI as this is
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Subbu Allamaraju <[email protected]> wrote:
Martin,
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Option. I must be missing somethingTry dragging "Preference" from the palette.
Also even if we could do it at create time in workshop these will bethe same
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manually and that would leave room for mistakes and people missingfields etc.
We are looking at a very large number of portlets...
What would be really nice is to define a 'preferences' property setas user profile
etc and then
just apply it...thus not leaving room for errors etc.....
At this time, the API does not support this scenario. We're considering
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Subbu
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Subbu Allamaraju <[email protected]> wrote:
Martin,
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Hi,
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that
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