Introduction to Portlets
The standard Welcome page gives you quick links to the pages of CentraSite Business UI that you will probably use frequently during your day-to-day work with CentraSite. It also provides links to external web sites that provide useful information related to CentraSite.
The Welcome page consists of a menu bar at the top and a set of default portlets below. Each portlet contains a header and content. The header includes a title, some selectable markers (example, to set user configuration of an individual portlet, expand or collapse a portlet, and so on) and a close button. Under the header, you can have a list of entries, either representing the result set of a search query, any external HTML page or a graphical image.
The result set of a search query represents a particular type of information, such as recent searches, recently created assets or changes to assets, most popular assets and so on.
An administrator defines the default set of portlets to display in the Welcome page. You can personalize the Welcome page to suit your requirements and preferences; you can add or remove portlets, rearrange portlets anywhere you want by simply dragging them, and customize the settings of individual portlets.
Using portlets, you can:
Display the list of assets that you own in a single portlet.
Display the list of recently modified assets in a single portlet.
Display the list of active users in
CentraSite registry in a single portlet.
Create a quick link to the list of saved searches.
Create a quick link to the list of recent saved searches.