Choose Portlet Template

Portlet templates allow you to create your own portlets with minimal knowledge about configuration and coding. For example, you can choose an Excel portlet template to create an Excel spreadsheet to track a project. A portlet can be placed on My Pages or community pages.

Note: If you are creating a portlet inside a community, that portlet will only be available to this community. To make the portlet available to other areas in the portal, you must copy it to an administrative folder.

To learn more about portlets, click here.

To learn more about communities, click here.

To choose a portlet template:

• In the Choose Portlet Template list, choose the portlet template that you want and click Next to display the Create Portlet page.

To learn more about creating portlets, click here.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Open the Community Editor:

• To create a portlet in an existing community from within the community page:

1. Click My Communities and select the community you want to edit.
2. Open the Community Editor:
• In the My Communities menu, click Edit this Community.

• On the right, click Edit This Community.

Note: To edit a community, you need Edit access for the community.

• To create a portlet in an existing community from Administration:

1. Click Administration and navigate to the community you want to edit.
2. Click the community name.

3. Click .

• To create portlet in a new community:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open an administrative folder.
3. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Community.
4. In the Community Pages section, click Select Community Template.
5. In the Community Templates dialog box, choose a community template and click OK.
6. If this community template does not include a home page, click Create Home Page; then, in the New Page dialog box, choose a page template and click OK.

Note: To create a community, you need Edit access for the administrative folder and the Create Community activity right.

2. Create the portlet:

• To create the portlet and place it on a particular page:

1. Under Community Pages, click the name of the page to which you want to add the portlet.

2. In the Edit Page dialog box, click Create Portlets.

• To create the portlet in this community, but not add it to a page yet:

1. On the left, under Edit Community Settings, click This Community's Portlets.

2. Click Create Portlet.