13.4 Wiring tool

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The portlet wiring tool allows you to view the properties that portlets on the page can send or receive. If a match is available between two portlets, you can create a wire between the two portlets. Existing wires may also be deleted using the tool. This is an alternative to the wire creation or deletion while interacting with the portlets using the Ctrl key.

The wiring tool allows wires to be created in situations which are not handled by the interactive approach. For example, the tool does not require the existence of Click-to-Action menus to initiate wire creation, and can be used to create multiple wires from a single source property (using the interactive approach, a single source can be wired to a single target or all targets, not an arbitrary subset). Wire creation or deletion is subject to the access control checks.

Figure 13-3. Creating wires programmatically using Portlet Wiring Tool

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This portlet is initially provided after the release of WebSphere Portal V5.0. Subsequent versions of WebSphere Portal will include the Portlet Wiring Tool as part of the product and deployed to the Page Customizer.

Note : You can download the tool from the WebSphere portal catalog. The Navigation code is 1WP10004E.

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IBM WebSphere Portal V5 A Guide for Portlet Application Development
IBM Websphere Portal V5: A Guide for Portlet Application Development
ISBN: 0738498513
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 148

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