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:
Now that you have copied the portlets, you are ready to begin adding
them to your dashboard.