Main Settings (Remote Portlet Web Service)

To learn about portlets and portlet Web services, click here.

To specify the location of your remote portlet Web service, specify time-outs, and enable or disable the portlets associated with this Web service:

1. Under Server Information, you can establish and manage remote server associations for this Web service:

• To associate a remote server (or to change an existing association):
1. Click Browse.
2. In the Choose Remote Server dialog box, choose the remote server you want to associate and click OK.

The associated remote server displays to the right of Remote Server, and the location of that remote server in the administrative directory displays to the right of Remote Server Path.

• To edit the remote server, click its name.

• To remove the remote server association, click Remove.

2. Under HTTP Settings, specify the path and time-out settings for this Web service:

1. In the Portlet URL box, type the path to the remote portlet. If you associated a remote server, the base URL displays to the left of the box. You can either type a relative path, finishing the path that starts with the base URL (/myPortlet/Portlet.htm), or you can type an absolute path, ignoring the base URL (http://myServer/myPortlet/Portlet.htm).

2. For each time-out setting, specify how long you want the portal to try to get the portlet content from the computer hosting the portlet. If the host computer does not return content before the time-out period ends, the portlet displays an error message.
   
   In each time-out text box, type the number of seconds or minutes you want the portal to wait; then, in the drop-down list click Second(s) or Minute(s).

• The Portlet Timeout setting applies only to non-gatewayed content. You probably want to set a relatively short time, because users might have to wait for the entire time-out period to elapse before their My Pages or community pages display.

• The Gateway Timeout setting applies only to gatewayed content (for example, linked content from Publisher or Collaboration that is not displayed on a My Page or community page). You can probably set a slightly longer time here than for the portlet timeout, because gatewayed content is often secured or of a more complicated nature and therefore users are willing to wait longer for it to display.

3. Under Status of Web Service, specify what should happen when a user tries to access portlets created from this portlet Web service:

• To display the portlet content, click Enabled.

• To display a message rather than the portlet content, click Disabled with message and type a message in the box.

You can toggle the status of this Web service at any time. For example, you might want to disable a Web service if you need to do maintenance on the host computer or on the Web service itself.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Remote Portlet Web Service Editor:
• To create a new remote portlet Web service:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Web Service - Remote Portlet.
• To edit an existing remote portlet Web service:
1. Navigate to the remote portlet Web service you want to edit.
2. Click the remote portlet Web service name.