CentraSite 10.5 | CentraSite User’s Guide | Portlet Management | Adding a Portlet to Your Welcome Page | Creating a Text Portlet
 
Creating a Text Portlet
You can create a custom text portlet and add the newly created text portlet to your Welcome page using the Create Portlet dialog box in CentraSite Business UI.
*To create a Text portlet
1. In CentraSite Business UI, click the Welcome link that is located in the upper-right corner of the header area.
The Welcome page displays a list of portlets that are configured for your view.
2. Click the configure link (below the label Welcome to CentraSite Business UI).
The Configure your Welcome Page dialog box displays the list of portlets that are available to you.
3. In the Configure Your Welcome Page dialog box, click the create a portlet link.
4. In the Create Portlet dialog box, provide the required information for each of the displayed data fields:
Field
Description
Name
Name of the portlet. A portlet name can contain any character (including spaces).
A portlet name does not need to be unique within the Welcome page. However, to reduce ambiguity, you should avoid giving multiple portlets of the same type the same name. As a best practice, we recommend that you adopt appropriate naming conventions to ensure that portlets are distinctly named within the Welcome page.
Description
(Optional). The description for the portlet.
Type
The portlet display type, Text.
Data Feed
The saved search query for the portlet.
Number of Entries
(Optional). The number of entries to display in the portlet. If the number of entries is set to 0, then all the available entries are displayed.
Attributes
The display attributes for the portlet. The attributes are dynamically displayed depending on the selected search query.
5. Click the chevron to expand the Advanced Settings panel. Provide the required information for each of the displayed data fields:
Field
Description
Actions
(Optional). A set of actions that are available for the configuration of the Text portlet.
The default actions include:
*Refresh
*Configure
Icon URL
(Optional). The path to an image file that is used to represent this portlet in the Welcome page.
Prerequisite: The image file must be in PNG format. To ensure proper alignment when it is displayed in the user interface, the image must be 16 x 16 pixels in size.
The image must reside in the folder <CentraSiteInstall_Directory>\cast\cswebapps\BusinessUI\images\system.
The path for the image should be specified, for example, as images/system/icon.png
Refresh Interval
(Optional). The time interval (in seconds) after which a the portlet content is refreshed.
If a value is not specified (or if the value 0 is specified), refresh will not happen.
Suppress Zero Values
The Suppress Zero Values option button determines how rows containing zero values are handled in the portlet. When this option button is selected, any row that contains a value equal to zero is hidden in the portlet.
By default, the Suppress Zero Values property is set to Yes.
6. Click OK.
The portlet that you just created is added to the CentraSite Registry Repository, and you are redirected to the Configure Your Welcome Page dialog box.
By default, the newly created portlet is disabled and is not displayed in the Welcome page.
7. In the Configure Your Welcome Page dialog box, select the newly created portlet to add to your Welcome page.
8. Click OK.
The newly created portlet is displayed in your personalized Welcome page.