The Manage Mobile Pages portlet enables portal administrators
to create the navigation hierarchy for mobile devices.
Overview
The Manage Mobile Pages portlet is
a design-time portlet for portal administrators to create mobile portal
style navigation. The mobile portal navigation tree is stored in the
navigation of
WebSphere® Portal and
consists of pages, URLs and portlets. At runtime, the XDIME aggregator
displays the navigation created by the Manage Mobile Pages portlet.
Manage Mobile Pages also supports the configuration of extended properties
for each page, URL, and portlet and lets you define the use of preload
notices in the navigation.
When you create a page or URL that supports
XDIME markup, the page or URL's title will be displayed on mobile
devices. Where the title is displayed depends on which navigation
view is being used by a mobile device. Keep in mind that most mobile
devices have very little screen space. Therefore, do not use long
titles for navigation nodes that are displayed on mobile devices.
If you define navigation nodes that apply to mobile devices as well
as PC browsers, you can use the Extended Properties portlet to configure
a short title for the page or URL. The XDIME aggregator will display
the short title on mobile devices and the HTML aggregator will display
the page or URL's (long) title on PC browsers.
Note: See the following
topics for more information:
- Extended Properties portlet and Using extended
properties to display device dependent navigation for more
information on using short titles
- Character limitations for the list of characters
that should not be included in titles
- Designing preload notices for information on placement
of a preload notice in a page
Manage Mobile Pages displays all pages, labels,
and URLs for which the current user has a User or greater role. The
functions available also depend upon the user's level of access.
Note: Although
labels can be manipulated by Manage Mobile Pages, they are not displayed
by the XDIME aggregator. In addition, Manage Mobile Pages will not
allow you to create labels under pages that support only the XDIME
markup.
Navigation tree
The navigation tree area
displays the portal navigation hierarchy. Pages, labels, and URLs
(referred to as navigation nodes or just nodes) are displayed in the
tree. The navigation tree buttons allow the administrator to manipulate
the navigation tree. These buttons allow the administrator to create
and render nodes.
The administrator can also filter the tree
and search for nodes by title, description, last modified, or unique
name. Using the filter capability, the administrator can view the
navigation tree based on specific markup types. When the tree is filtered,
the navigation tree shows only the nodes that meet the filter criteria.
To
expand a branch, click the solid box preceding the title. To collapse
a branch, click the hollow box preceding the title.
To select
a node, click the title. When a node is selected, its properties are
summarized in the sections of the preview area and the administrator
can perform node-level operations on it. Node operations include edit
properties, edit extended properties, edit layout, create preload
notice, delete preload notice, assign permissions, activate, deactivate,
delete, export, and move.
Preview information
By default, the summary
sections of Manage Mobile Pages includes the base node properties,
Preload Notice information, the display preferences (extended properties),
the device requirements (extended properties), and a list of portlets
(if the node is a page). The preview sections can be selected from
the configuration page accessible from the configure icon in the Manage
Mobile Pages portlet title bar.
Common tasks
From Manage Mobile Pages, you
can perform the following tasks:
- Select nodes
- Create pages
- Create labels
- Create URLs
- Edit existing pages, labels, and URLs
- Search pages, labels, and URLs
- Order pages, labels, and URLs
- Assign access to pages, labels
- Activate and deactivate pages
- Delete pages, labels, and URLs
- Configure Manage Mobile Pages
- Edit Preload Notices
- Delete Preload Notices
- Move Pages
- Export Pages