6.1 Understanding Available Content via Portlets

The Dashboard ships with many default portlets that can be added to a Web page to add content to the page. You can disable portlets or restrict their use based on user permissions. For more information, see Section 3.12, Granting or Denying Access to Portlets.

The Dashboard includes:

  • A library of standard Liferay portlets, including basic page navigation features.

    For more information about the Liferay portlet library, see the Liferay 6.2 documentation. Some portlets might require the installation of third-party software; check the software documentation for more information. For support for any third-party portlets, including Liferay portlets, contact the vendor that provided the portlet.

  • Operations Center portlets that expose Operations Center Service Management content, such as alarms

    For information, see Section 7.0, Exposing Operations Center Content.

Table 6-1 lists Operations Center portlets, followed by default Liferay portlets:

Table 6-1 Dashboard Portlets

Category

Description/Available Portlets

Operations Center

Operations Center portlets allow you to surface Service Management data:

  • Alarms

  • Chart Builder

  • Charting

  • Element Properties

  • Layout

  • Operations Center server Profiles

  • Navigation

  • Performance

  • Properties Table

  • Public End User View

  • Refresh

  • Root Cause

  • Search

  • Show Impacted

  • Starter

  • Status

  • Summary

  • Tree Map

For more information, see Section 7.0, Exposing Operations Center Content and Section 8.0, Configuring Operations Center Portlets.

Collaboration

Collaboration portlets facilitate interaction among coworkers:

  • Blogs

  • Blogs Aggregator

  • Calendar

  • Message Boards

  • Recent Bloggers

  • SMS Text Messenger

  • Wiki

Site

Site portlets allow the sharing of information among people with a similar skill, interest, or task to perform:

  • Bookmarks

  • Directory

  • Invitation

  • My Sites

  • Page Comments

  • Page Ratings

For more information on sites, see Section 5.2, Creating and Maintaining Sites.

Content Management

Content Management System (CMS) portlets help manage documents and images and publish content. Some add navigation functionality to a page.

  • Asset Publisher

  • Breadcrumb

  • Categories Navigation

  • Document Library and Document Library Display

  • Image Gallery

  • Navigation

  • Nested Portlets

  • Polls Display

  • Recent Documents

  • Site Map

  • Tags Navigation

  • Web Content Display, List and Search

  • XSL Content

For generic instructions on how to add a portlet to a page as well as instructions for adding a site map, breadcrumbs and navigation to a page, see Section 6.0, Adding Content to a Page Using Portlets.

Finance

Finance portlets include tools and informative content:

  • Currency Converter

  • Loan Calculator

News

News portlets display or share news information:

  • Alerts

  • Announcements

  • RSS

Sample

Sample portlets include:

  • Hello Velocity

  • Hello World

  • IFrame

  • Web Proxy

Tools

Tools portlets include the following tools and functionality:

  • Dictionary

  • Language

  • Network Utilities

  • Password Generator

  • Quick Note

  • Search

  • Sign In

  • Software Catalog

  • Translator

  • Unit Converter

Wiki

Wiki portlets allow users to easily add content to a Web page:

  • Wiki

  • Wiki Display