Add Portlets

The Add Portlets page allows you to add portlets or portlet bundles, which are collections of related portlets packaged together so that you can easily add them to portal pages. The page displays a list of all portlets and portlet bundles available to you.

This topic discusses:

• Searching, Browsing, and Sorting Portlets and Portlet Bundles
• Previewing Portlets
• Adding Portlets and Portlet Bundles
• Recommending Portlets

Searching, Browsing, and Sorting Portlets and Portlet Bundles

• To search for portlets or portlet bundles, in the Search for Portlets text box, type the text you want to search for and click . You may use wild card characters in this text box. For searching tips, see Text Search Rules.
  
  You can sort the search results by relevance, name, last modified date, folder, or object type by selecting the sorting category in the Sort by drop-down list.

• To view a list of all folders, click Browse All Folders.
  
  Note: This link displays folders that might not contain portlets or portlet bundles.

• To view the portlets and portlet bundles in a folder, click the folder name.

• To view a list of the portlets in a portlet bundle, click the name of the bundle.

Previewing Portlets

To see what a portlet looks like, click the portlet name to display the Preview Portlet page:

• To add the portlet to your page and close the preview, click Add this portlet.

• To view a description of the portlet, click View Description. When you are finished, click Close.

• To return to the list of portlets without adding the portlet to your page, click Close.

Adding Portlets and Portlet Bundles

You can perform the following actions to add portlets or portlet bundles:

• To add all of the portlets from a portlet bundle to your page, click Add to the left of the bundle name.

• To see what portlets are included in a bundle or to add only some of the portlets from a portlet bundle to your page, click the bundle name. In the Add Portlets from Bundle dialog box, select the portlets you want to add and click Finish.

• To add a portlet, select it.

• To remove a portlet, clear the box to the left of the portlet.

• To save your changes and return to your page, click Finish.

• To return to your page without saving your changes, click Cancel.

Recommending Portlets

To recommend a portlet to other users:

1. To the right of the portlet, click .

2. In the dialog box, copy the text, then click Close.

3. In your e-mail application, paste the text into an e-mail message and send it.

When other portal users click the URL in your e-mail, they are taken to the portlet preview and given the option to add the portlet to one of their My Pages. If a user does not have permission to see the portlet, an error message is displayed.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. If you are not already on the My Page or community page to which you want to add portlets, navigate to that page now.

2. Click Edit Page. Depending on what type of page you were viewing, you get one of the following results:

• If you were viewing a My Page with an adaptive page layout, the Flyout Page Editor opens. Continue with Step 3.

• If you were viewing a My Page with a legacy page layout, the Standard Page Editor opens. Skip to Step 5.

• If you were viewing a community page with an adaptive page layout, the Flyout Page Editor opens. Continue with Step 3.

• If you were viewing a community page with a legacy page layout, the Community Editor opens. Skip to Step 4.

3. If the Flyout Page Editor opened, click Go to Advanced Editor. Depending on what type of page you were viewing, you get one of the following results:

• If you were viewing a My Page, the Standard Page Editor opens. Skip to Step 5.

• If you were viewing a community page, the Community Editor opens. Continue with Step 4.

4. If you were viewing a community page, in the Community Editor, click the page for which you want to select a layout. The Page Editor opens.

5. In the Standard Page Editor, click Add Portlets.