Creating an HTML portlet

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In addition to providing a robust set of portlets with which to populate your pages, Portal also provides the means for you to write your own portlets using standard HTML text. This capability may be useful to disseminate static information on a region of your page, such as a company announcement or instructions for completing a task related to a particular group.

The steps to create an HTML portlet to a page vary depending on whether you want the portlet to be visible to all users of the page, or just yourself.

Notes:

• There is a browser limit of 30 kilobytes of text for your HTML content. If you exceed this limit, the browser does not warn you that data will be truncated. Among other things, broken tables can occur, which in Netscape browsers prevent the entire HTML portlet from being displayed.
  

• You do not have to have any special privileges to create your own portlets using HTML.

To create an HTML portlet:

1. Navigate to the page on which you want to add the portlet.

   Note: If you do not see the page that you want to work with, you may not have the appropriate page access privileges. See your page group administrator to gain access.

2. Click Edit Page to switch to Edit mode, which affects the default version of the page.

   Click Customize to add the HTML portlet to your own version of the page.

3. Click in the region in which you want to add the portlet.

   Note: If the region already includes items you can not add portlets to the region.

4. In the Portlet Repository, click Portal Tools.

   Note: To preview a portlet before adding it to your page, click next to the name of the portlet.

5. Click HTML Portlet.

   The order of the portlets in Selected Portlets reflects the order in which they appear on the page. To change the order of the portlets, highlight the portlet name and use the arrows in between the two lists.

6. Click OK to return to the page.

7. Click beside the portlet.

8. Click Edit Defaults, and click OK.

9. In the Display Name field, enter the name you want to display in the portlet header.

10. If you do not want to display the portlet header at all, clear the Display Portlet Header check box.

    Note: If you are editing the page and you clear this check box, users of the page cannot customize the contents of the portlet. The Customize link does not appear.

    If you are customizing the page, keep in mind that If you suppress the header, you won't be able to edit the contents of the portlet directly from the desktop page, because the Customize link won't appear. Instead, you'll have to edit the page to change the HTML.

11. Enter the text you want to display in the Content field, following standard HTML conventions. If you want to add text, without any formatting, type the text directly.

12. To see a preview of the portlet, click Preview.

13. When you are satisfied with the portlet, click OK.

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