Rational® tools enable you to add a Click-to-Action menu to a JSP file to publish an output property.
The WebSphere® Portal cooperative runtime environment supports multiple ways to trigger the publishing of an output property. It can be implicit, by programmatically providing the output property to the declared location while processing a portlet action, using wires, for example. Or it can be explicit, using a pop-up menu from a portlet JSP page. This second approach, Click-to-Action, is a feature specific to the IBM® portlet API. To enable this feature, the <encodeProperty> tag is inserted to the JSP page.
To insert a Click-to-Action Output Property (encodeProperty), perform the following steps:
Inserting the Click-to-Action Output Property
object performs the following tasks: