Edit the Contents of a WebDAV Content Portlet

A WebDAV content portlet displays the contents of a specified HTML fragment that is stored in a WebDAV repository. The portlet can also display a link to additional detailed information.
An HTML fragment is an HTML file that does not contain opening and closing HTML tags, HEAD tags, or BODY tags. The fragment can be displayed successfully in the cell of an HTML table. You can create your own WebDAV content portlets to display HTML fragments that you specify.
When preparing the HTML fragment, you should be aware of the following considerations:
  • If the HTML fragment contains style definitions with class names that also occur in the portal theme, then the appearance of the portal could be affected when the portlet is displayed.
  • If the HTML fragment contains JavaScript, use namespaces for the JavaScript functions to prevent conflicts with portal processing.
  • If the HTML fragment contains text in a language that uses multibyte characters, then you must convert the text to UTF-8 in order for the portlet to work correctly. Languages that use multibyte characters include Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
After you create a WebDAV content portlet, you must edit the portlet in order to specify the path to the HTML fragment.
To edit a WebDAV content portlet, follow these steps:
  1. Navigate to the page that contains the portlet that you want to edit.
  2. In the portlet's title bar, click the Edit Contents icon edit icon .
  3. On the Edit Portlet page, enter the following:
    Location
    Select the HTML fragment that you want to display. You must select an HTML file. If you select any other type of file, an error message is displayed.
    To navigate to the file's path, use the same procedure that you would use in a navigator portlet. See Using Navigator Portlets.
    When you locate the path and click on it, an information box appears at the top of the page and displays the fully qualified path to the file.
    Detail Link
    If you want the portlet to display a link to additional detailed information, specify a SBIP URL for the content item that contains the information. You can link to content that is located in the WebDAV repository, or to content that is defined in SAS metadata.
    To create the URL for the detail link, follow these steps:
    1. Use the search tool to find the content item to which you want to link.
    2. Copy the item's path information from the Location column in the search results.
    3. After the path, enter a slash (/) followed by the content item's name (from the Name column in the search results).
      Note: For WebDAV content, you do not need to perform this step. The Location path for WebDAV content contains the name of the file as well, so it's not necessary to enter /ItemName.
    4. Precede the path with the repository name followed by a slash. For WebDAV content, the path begins with the name of the WebDAV repository. The default repository name is WebDAV. For content that is defined in SAS metadata, the path begins with METASERVER.
    5. (Optional) Place the following characters in front of the path: 
      sbip://
    Here are some examples of SBIP URLs for various types of content items:
    • sbip://METASERVER/Products/SAS Intelligence Platform/Samples/Sample: European Demographic Data
    • METASERVER/Users/sasdemo/My Folder/Sales Map
    • METASERVER/Users/sasdemo/My Folder/Midwest Sales Report.srx
    • sbip://METASERVER/System/Publishing/Channels/North America Sales Region
    • WebDAV/Users/sasdemo/2008SalesAsia.html
  4. Click Save.
    The portlet displays the contents of the HTML fragment. Here is an example of a WebDAV content portlet that has a link to detailed information:
    WebDAV content portlet
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