Deploy and Publish a Portlet

Step 1: Deploy a portlet

• deploy a portlet by running the following command from your uPortal source directory (Replace ClassSchedule.war below with your portlet war file)

ant deployPortletApp -DportletApp=/path/to/ClassSchedule.war

Step 2: Publish the portlet

•  Define the portlet under Portlet Administration. Select "Register New Portlet",  click on the "Portlet" option and click the "Next" button at the bottom of the page.

• Select your new portlet from the drop-down menu and click "Next"

• Fill out the Summary information for your new portlet and click Next (See example below).

• Fill out the portlet.xml Preferences and click Next. (See images below)

• Select Categories which your portlet will belong to and click Next. (See image below)

• Select the People and Groups who can add your new portlet to their layout and click Next. (See images below)

• Fill out the Lifecycle of your new portlet and click Next

• Fill out any necessary Configurations on your new portlet, confirm that everything is set accordingly and click Save  (See images below)

Step 3: Add the new portlet

• Since we made the example portlet above only available to students, login as a student
• Add the new portlet to the layout by clicking on "Add Content"

• Select your new portlet from the selection list and click on the "Add to My Page" button. (See image below)

• Now, your portlet has been added (See image below)