Re: Multiple instances of the same portlet...

[Stefan Hepper <st...@hursley.ibm.com>]

Correct, the pluto container is not affected by this. This is also not 
part of the portlet specification, as it is an administrative task.
So what works is that your portal can create an arbitrary number of 
portlet entiies out of a portlet definition of a portlet in the portlet.xml.
The portlet spec would even allow to have multiple portlet windows 
pointing to the same portlet entity (e.g. on different pages).
The pluto containe is prepared for all these as the object model 
respresents these levels.


Stefan


Chamberlain James O. CONTR J9C998 wrote:

> Can't pluto do this now? I have a portlet that surfaces data from a
> database. In jetspeed, I would just add to the page multiple times. Then
> for each one, I would goto it's edit page and configure it to point at a
> different data set. To do this in jetspeed it did not require any
> changes to the portlet's xreg, only the pages psml. In pluto I would
> think that no changes would be required for the portlet's portlet.xml,
> just the layout (pageregistry.xml) and where ever pluto store's the user
> customized portlet preferences for each portlet.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>  
> James
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Huber [mailto:shuber@ti.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:08 AM
> To: kweiner@unicon.net; nl@essential.com.au
> Cc: pluto-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Multiple instances of the same portlet...
> 
> Thank you for your responses...
> 
> But as far as I know the testsuite just defines two instances of the
> portlet in portlet.xml.
> 
> Now imagine the case someone wants to add for example a third and a
> fourth instance of the portlet on his page but *and that's the main
> point* by not editing portlet.xml directly.
> 
> Instead the user should be able to choose i.e. in a select box in edit
> mode of the portlet how many portlet instances he would like to have...
> 
> To realize this kind of functionality I was searching the portlet spec
> how to add another <portlet>-tag in portlet.xml by calling a method of
> the portlet api but didn't find anything...
> 
> After all, is this feature possible and if it is what do I have to do?
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> - Stephan
> 
>