For portal projects, you can configure wires between same-API portlets
within the same portal page. This capability is only available for WebSphere® Portal
5.1 portal projects.
Portal Designer provides Page properties in the Properties view that enable
you to configure wires. The
Wires Properties page lists
configured wires and provides possible candidates for source portlets, output
properties, target portlets and actions that are required to create a wire.
This page allows you to add or remove wiring information. Wiring options are
based on cooperative capabilities that have already been configured for specific
portlet projects used in the portal page.
Note: There is no way to edit a configured
wire. If you want to change wiring properties, you have to remove the existing
wire and create a new one with the appropriate properties.
Some wiring capabilities require the related portlet projects to be in
your workspace to retrieve portlet information. However, all portlet projects
of portlets in the selected page do not always exist in the workspace, for
example, if you work with the portal project that you imported from WebSphere Portal.
The following table shows which functions are supported when a portlet project
does not exist in the workspace. (All are supported when the portlet project
exists in the workspace.)
Function |
Available without a portlet project in your workspace |
Add a wire |
No |
Remove a wire |
Yes Note: Be careful when removing wires from portlets
whose portlet projects do not exist in the workspace, because you cannot re-add
those wires if the portlet projects are not in the workspace.
|
Display configured wires |
Yes |
The Outline view does not display wire elements.
Deploying wires between IBM® portlet API portlets to WebSphere Portal
5.1 (prerequisite)
To deploy new wires between IBM portlet API
portlets defined using Portal Designer to a remote server, you must perform
the following steps
first:
- Locate the ConfigService.properties file in the wp51_installdir/PortalServer/shared/app/config/services
directory.
- Open the ConfigService.properties file, and set the host.name and host.port.http properties
to the hostname and HTTP port of the target portal server used for the import.
- Save the file.
- Restart WebSphere Portal.
Note: These steps are not required for using the WebSphere Portal 5.1 Test Environment.
They are required only for deploying to a WebSphere Portal 5.1 remote server.