Deploy and Publish a Portlet

Dec 07, 2010

Documentation provided by Lakshmi Maktala, Project Coordinator, from Oakland University

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)

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