About Portlets

What is a Portlet?

Portlets are the display components of a portal. They are used to organize a portal's contents on a page. In the SAS Information Delivery Portal, each portlet is surrounded by a border and has a title bar that contains a label and icons. Here is an example:
example of a portlet labeled Links
The title bar of a portlet might also contain the label “Shared.” This label indicates that the portlet has been shared publicly or with a group. For more information, see Overview of Sharing Content.
See the following sections for more information about portlets:

See Also

About Adding Portlets
Rearrange Portlets on a Page

Types of Portlets That Are Included with the Portal

The SAS Information Delivery Portal includes several types of portlets that have specific sets of features:
collection portlet
A collection portlet contains a list of portal content items. An example of a collection portlet is shown above. The SAS Information Delivery Portal enables you to create your own collection portlets for your portal pages. In these collection portlets, you can add an entry for any content item that you are authorized to access. For more information, see these topics:
About Collection Portlets
Create a New Collection Portlet Using the Portlet Wizard
Create a New Collection Portlet Using Bookmarked Items
navigator portlet
A navigator portlet enables you to explore content items that are organized in a hierarchical (tree) arrangement of folders and subfolders. Examples of this content might include stored processes, information maps, reports, and files stored in a WebDAV repository (a collection of files that are stored on a Web server). For more information, see these topics:
Using Navigator Portlets
Add a Predefined Portlet to a Page
URL display portlet
A URL display portlet is a portlet that accesses a specific URL and displays the returned information inside the portlet's borders. For more information, see About URL Display Portlets.
WebDAV content portlet
A WebDAV content portlet displays the contents of an HTML fragment that is stored in a WebDAV repository. For more information, see Create a New WebDAV Content Portlet.
WebDAV graph portlet
A WebDAV graph portlet displays a graph that uses data from a WebDAV repository. For more information, see these topics:
About WebDAV Graph Portlets
Create a New WebDAV Graph Portlet
information map viewer portlet
An information map viewer portlet displays data by using bookmarks that you create in the Visual Data Explorer component. For more information, see these topics:
About Information Map Viewer Portlets
Create a New Information Map Viewer Portlet
Bookmarks portlet
The Bookmarks portlet is a predefined portlet that enables you to view and work with content that you have found using the Search tool and bookmarked for later use. For more information, see these topics:
About Bookmarks
Add a Predefined Portlet to a Page
Publication Channel Subscriptions portlet
The Publication Channel Subscriptions portlet is a predefined portlet that lists publication channels to which you are subscribed. The portlet enables you to view content that has been published to the channels. For more information, see these topics:
View a SAS Publication Channel
Add a Predefined Portlet to a Page
Stored Process Alerts portlet
The Stored Process Alerts portlet is a predefined portlet that notifies you when particular types of SAS Stored Processes have finished executing and are ready to view. For more information, see these topics:
About Stored Process Alerts
Add a Predefined Portlet to a Page
Note: Depending on the software that is installed at your site, the portal might contain additional portlets. These can be custom portlets created by your organization as well as portlets provided by other SAS products or solutions. These portlets can display other types of data, text, or graphics, or they can have specific interactive capabilities. These portlets are not documented here, but some of them might have a Help icon question mark icon in the title bar that you can click for information.

Using the Icons in the Portlet Title Bar

You can use the icons in a portlet title bar as follows:
  • If the Edit Properties iconedit properties icon is displayed, then you can click this icon to modify the portlet's title, keywords, or description. If you are a group content administrator, then you can also share the portlet with members of your group. See Edit a Portlet's Properties (Name, Description, and Keywords).
  • If the Edit Content icon Edit icon is displayed, then you can click this icon to modify the content that is displayed in the portlet. See Edit the Contents of a Portlet.
  • If the Remove icon the Remove icon is a square with an X inside is displayed, then you can click this icon to remove the portlet from your portal page. See Removing or Deleting a Portlet .
  • Click the Minimize icon Minimize icon to resize the portlet so that only the title bar is showing. You can then use the Maximize icon maximize icon to restore the entire portlet to the page.
    The minimized and maximized states are maintained only while you are logged on; they do not persist from one session to another. The default state is the maximized state.
  • If the Help icon question mark is displayed, then you can click this icon to display instructions for using the portlet.
Note: Shared portlets can be edited or removed only by a user who has been designated as a group content administrator for the respective group. If you are not authorized to edit or remove a portlet, the icons for these actions do not appear in that portlet's title bar.