To make it easier for users to find web content, the site
toolbar provides palettes. You use these palettes to organize components
that you can add, such as portlets, iWidgets, and web content.
About this task
By default, the Content palette includes four sample content
items. You can add your own content to the Content palette. For more
details about how to do so, read Customizing the Page Component palette.
To add web content, you can use the preferred drag-and-drop
configurations. You can also configure individual copies of the Web
Content Viewer portlet to copy web content when you add these portlet
copies to a page. Copies of the web content viewer appear in the Applications
palette of the site toolbar.
To include a web content item in
the Applications palette of the site toolbar, follow the procedure
that is given here.
Procedure
- Make a copy of the portlet called Web Content Viewer. To do so, use the portal administration interface. Give the
copy a name that indicates the content item that the viewer represents.
- Add the new web content viewer to a page. You
need this page only temporarily to provide a way of configuring the
web content viewer.
- Open the Configure mode for the
portlet.
- From the Content Type section, select
the content item that you want to add.
- From the Content Behavior section,
select Select content and path.
- From the section that is named When this Portlet
is added to the page, select Create content
(based on selection).
Note: You cannot add
portlets that use this setting to a page that does not have a default
content association.
- In the Content section, specify
the content item or site area that this web content viewer represents.
Results
After you complete these steps, the copy of the web content
viewer that represents your web content is displayed in the Applications
palette of the site toolbar. Whenever you add this portlet copy to
a page, the associated content item or site area is copied into the
site area that is associated to the page by the default content association.
Notes for the XML configuration interface: To
create the copies of the web content viewer, you can also use the
portal
XML configuration interface. To
specify the behavior of the setting Create content (based on selection)
by using with the
XML configuration interface,
specify the following portlet preference in the XML import file:
- Preference:
- com.ibm.portal.wcm.copy.contents
- Value:
- true
You can also specify the target site area that you
want to be used when the portal copies the web content. To define
a target site area, use the following portlet preference in the XML
import file:
- Preference:
- WCM_COPY_CONTENT_RELATIVE_PATH
- Value:
- site_area_name
When you add the web content viewer that specifies
this
WCM_COPY_CONTENT_RELATIVE_PATH preference
to a page, the portal first creates the specified site area under
the default content association of the page. Afterward, the portal
copies the web content that is associated with the web content viewer
to the specified site area rather than to the default content association.