3 Replies Latest reply on Jul 15, 2005 12:56 PM by rali

Setting up a my-yahoo kind of layout

ngriffin7a Jul 13, 2005 4:15 PM

Does JBoss Portal provide a way for users to define new portal tabs (pages), and then select which portlets they want for each tab/page?

This is the type of interface I see at my.yahoo.com and others.

You know, a tab control long the top of the portal that looks like this:

Tab1 Tab2 Tab3 ... TabN

And when the user clicks on one of the tabs, he can select which portlets he wants. In addition, he can lay out the portlets (left/right/higher/lower) any way he wants.

Thank you,

Neil

1. Re: Setting up a my-yahoo kind of layout

mholzner Jul 13, 2005 5:21 PM (in response to ngriffin7a)

we call this feature dynamicity (Roy really loves that word ;)
It will be in the 2.2 release
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2. Re: Setting up a my-yahoo kind of layout

danny_hon Jul 15, 2005 11:01 AM (in response to ngriffin7a)

I am also trying to create a horizontal tab menu. Is there an API to find out what is the current page name?
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3. Re: Setting up a my-yahoo kind of layout

rali Jul 15, 2005 12:56 PM (in response to ngriffin7a)

You could try to look at the JBoss Labs project - we designed our portal layout, so we can access any portlet from any other portlet and created a Navigation menu that lists the available portlets to the user - the positioning of the different windows can be defined in a style sheet by defining regions that will later be used when defining the portlets. I am not exactly sure how helpful that is, but consider the Forge project as an example. (www.labs.jboss.com) - we tried to document as much as we can in the Wiki there.

cheers,
Rali
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