Copying portlets

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Before you configure the dashboard portlets, you should create copies of the concrete portlets, rather than directly adding and configuring them.
Dashboards are deployed on WebSphere® Portal as a portlet application with a set of concrete portlets (the dashboard views). When you add a concrete portlet to a portal page (a dashboard) and configure it once, the portlet keeps this configuration. Whenever you add it again to any portal page it carries this configuration. You may not always want this configuration, however. To avoid that, you can copy the concrete portlets and configure the copies instead. So each time you add the copied portlet it will not be configured, and you can configure it with the settings you want.

In this exercise, you will copy the concrete portlets, the Alerts view, and the Process Diagrams view, to add them later to the dashboard.

To copy the portlets, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to WebSphere Portal with an administrator user ID and password. The WebSphere Portal Welcome page opens.
  2. Go to the Administration tab.
  3. Click Portlet Management, and then click Portlets. The Manage Portlets page opens.
  4. In the search field, type Alerts, and then click Search. The Manage Portlets searches all the available portlets.
  5. To create a copy of the Alerts portlet, click the Copy Portlet icon copy portlet icon.
  6. On the Copy portlet page, type a name for the portlet copy: My Alerts.
  7. Create a copy of the Process Diagrams portlet following the same steps, and then rename it to Order Process Diagram.
Now that you have copied the portlets, you are ready to begin adding them to your dashboard.

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