Hello again Jetspeeders,
I'm actually starting to wonder if Jetspeed is suitable for my intended application, or whether I understand the portal paradigm completely. I've noticed that when you click on the "Maximize" icon for the portlets that come with Jetspeed, you pretty much see the same content but across the page, which doesn't actually strike me as that useful. I would have thought it more useful to have just the abstracts or a summary of information when the portlet is "restored"* and much more indepth content when it is maximized. How can this be achieved ? What I'm trying to do is build a company intranet. We'll have different portlets for HR/payroll, training, maintenance, inventory. Now, let's take the "training" portlet, I'd like a user to be able to customize it by checking the skills that she is interested in. She will see just 3 of the most recent courses in the portlet module when it is "restored"* but when it is maximized, she will see all the courses that she has expressed interest in, perhaps listed over multiple webpages. Is this possible ? If so, could somebody please point me in the right direction for this ? I'm looking at the AbstractPortlet in the API javadoc but there seems to be just one getContent(), where I would have expected a portlet to have something like getMaximizedContent(). Also, where would the user's preferences on the customize page be stored? Or have I completely misunderstood the portal paradigm and in fact, each portlet is just a jumping off point to a standalone webapp or website ? (which is the way that the Jetspeed examples seem to be implemented). Thank you very much Stephen. * Sorry, I made up this terminology. How do you refer to a portlet that is not "maximized" and not "minimized" ? I'm going to call it "restored" since that's the ALT tag of the icon I have to click in order to reach this state. --------------------------------- Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs.
