Portlets not coming as per layout for the Cutomized layout structure

Question

I have created new Customized layout for our application.
I could see the cutomized layout properly in Workshop. When i am adding the portlets to all of the placeholders in layout and running the portal , out put i could see all the portlets are coming in vertical and not as per structure as per i defined.
COuld not understand why it is happening when it is displaying properly in Workshop IDE.
One more issue i could not define the Height attribute to the placeholders .How to have cutomized heights for the placeholders?
Here are the My layout codes
Homelayout.layout_
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<netuix:markupDefinition xmlns:netuix="http://www.bea.com/servers/netuix/xsd/controls/netuix/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/servers/netuix/xsd/controls/netuix/1.0.0 markup-netuix-1_0_0.xsd">
<netuix:locale language="en"/>
<netuix:markup>
<netuix:layout title="homePageLayout" description="This layout is for home page of the portal"
skeletonUri="homePageLayout.jsp" htmlLayoutUri="/framework/markup/layout/homePageLayout.html.txt"
markupType="Layout" markupName="homePageLayout">
<netuix:placeholder title="top" description="The top most placeholder in this layout."
flow="vertical" usingFlow="true"
markupType="Placeholder" markupName="custom_Top">
</netuix:placeholder>
<netuix:placeholder title="center" description="The left of center placeholder in this layout."
flow="vertical" usingFlow="true"
markupType="Placeholder" markupName="custom_center">
</netuix:placeholder>
<netuix:placeholder title="bottomLeft" description="The right of center placeholder in this layout."
flow="vertical" usingFlow="true"
markupType="Placeholder" markupName="custom_bottomLeft">
</netuix:placeholder>
<netuix:placeholder title="bottomCenter" description="The right most placeholder in this layout."
flow="vertical" usingFlow="true"
markupType="Placeholder" markupName="custom_bottomCenter">
</netuix:placeholder>
<netuix:placeholder title="bottomRight" description="The right most placeholder in this layout."
flow="vertical" usingFlow="true"
markupType="Placeholder" markupName="custom_bottomRight">
</netuix:placeholder>
</netuix:layout>
</netuix:markup>
</netuix:markupDefinition>
homeLayout.html.txt_
<table class="portalLayout" id="thePortalLayout" width="100%" height="100%">
<tr height="40%">
<td colspan="3" class="placeholderTD" valign="top" width="100%" >
<placeholder number="0"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="10%">
<td height="10%" colspan="3" class="placeholderTD" valign="top" width="100%">
<placeholder number="1"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="50%">
<td class="placeholderTD" valign="top" width="25%">
<placeholder number="2"/>
</td>
<td class="placeholderTD" valign="top" width="50%">
<placeholder number="3"/>
</td>
<td class="placeholderTD" valign="top" width="25%">
<placeholder number="4"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Skelnton JSP*
<%@ page import="com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.layout.PlaceholderPresentationContext,
com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.layout.BorderLayoutPresentationContext"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.List" %>
<%@ page import ="com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.layout.LayoutPresentationContext"%>
<%@ page session="false"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.bea.com/servers/portal/tags/netuix/render" prefix="render" %>
<%
LayoutPresentationContext layout = LayoutPresentationContext.getLayoutPresentationContext(request);
List children = layout.getChildren("layout:placeholder");
PlaceholderPresentationContext custom_Top =
(PlaceholderPresentationContext) children.get(0);
PlaceholderPresentationContext custom_center =
(PlaceholderPresentationContext) children.get(1);
PlaceholderPresentationContext custom_bottomLeft =
(PlaceholderPresentationContext) children.get(2);
PlaceholderPresentationContext custom_bottomCenter =
(PlaceholderPresentationContext) children.get(3);
PlaceholderPresentationContext custom_bottomRight =
     (PlaceholderPresentationContext) children.get(4);
%>
<render:beginRender>
     <table border="0" ... write style attributes ... cellspacing="0" >
          <tr>
               <td colspan="3" class="bea-portal-layout-placeholder-container"
                    <render:writeAttribute name="width" value="<%=custom_Top.getWidth()%>"/>>
<render:renderChild presentationContext="<%=custom_Top%>" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
               <td colspan="3" class="bea-portal-layout-placeholder-container"
                    <render:writeAttribute name="width" value="<%=custom_center.getWidth()%>"/>><render:renderChild
                    presentationContext="<%=custom_center%>" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr >
               <td class="bea-portal-layout-placeholder-container"
                    <render:writeAttribute name="width" value="<%=custom_bottomLeft.getWidth()%>"/>><render:renderChild
                    presentationContext="<%=custom_bottomLeft%>" />
               </td>
               <td class="bea-portal-layout-placeholder-container"
                    <render:writeAttribute name="width" value="<%=custom_bottomCenter.getWidth()%>"/>><render:renderChild
                    presentationContext="<%=custom_bottomCenter%>" />
               </td>
               <td class="bea-portal-layout-placeholder-container"
                    <render:writeAttribute name="width" value="<%=custom_bottomRight.getWidth()%>"/>><render:renderChild
                    presentationContext="<%=custom_bottomRight%>" />
               </td>
          </tr>
     </table>
</render:beginRender>

Answer 1

Sanket,
First test it using ADF Business Components tester. Does it work there?
If not, check your view link definition.
If so, make sure you have defined the correct View Object Usages in your application structure file.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team.