As a site administrator I have a UI to visualize the embedded portlets in a page and remove their preferences

Committed on:
Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 5d29cbcd6db176fb8f06a30684c7d52a2ddb8fcb.

PASSED Manual Testing following the steps in the description.

Reproduced on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: d55102362c6430cb07ce054aa243ca4e3b40a122.

There is no "Embedded Portlets" entry.

Fixed on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 4eb20fef848386853541f3fb74951f14989a15fe.

Can not see "Embedded Portlets" in the right navigation box.

Thank you Mark for testing. Closing as 'Fixed'.

Reopening because this should have been done as an Story not as a subtask of a bug. Since it is a new feature it should go through product management review.

Tomas, I will do the conversion for this one but please check if the same applies to some of the other subtasks of LPS-28991

Hey Tomas,

When I go to the embedded portlets section it says that clicking the checkbox will delete the portlet, but when I do that the portlet is still there.

Hi David,

you are right, the the sentence is not complete. We delete them, but if they are still referenced from the page, they will be again created during the page next render.

The sentence is "Warning! Selected portlets will be removed."

May it be: "Warning! Selected portlets will be removed. Existing embedded portlets will be recreated." ?

Thank you.

When you click Manage -> Page from the dockbar on a page that has one or more embedded portlets and click on Embedded Portlets from the menu at the right, what's the use case for the checkbox? If you check the box next to a portlet and then click Save, the portlet disappears from the Embedded portlets list but still appears on the page. If you refresh the page, then click Manage -> Page from the dockbar and click on Embedded Portlets again, the portlet appears again in the list. Is the purpose of the UI for embedded portlets to manage their preferences? I don't see how to do this.

Hello everyone! We are in the process of removing component "Portlet" from LPS. Please replace this issue's component, "Portlet", with a new component. There are over 200+ components, in the newly organized component list. Also, make the necessary adjustments to affected filters. Thanks!

Hi Tomas,

1) I agree with Jesse. There is currently no way to actually manage the preferences fromt that page. Can we create links that open up the preferences?

2) Without the previous link, this page seems very useless except to delete old embedded portlet preferences except you can't tell which ones are still useful because of #3.

3) Following your example: My page still shows the Directory portlet as Active even though it is no longer on the page.

Thanks,
David

1) I agree with Jesse. There is currently no way to actually manage the preferences from that page. Can we create links that open up the preferences?

This page is not for managing the values stored in the preferences, but the actual PortletPreferences themselves as a DB record. You should already be able to manage the preferences of the portlet from the page itself.

2) Without the previous link, this page seems very useless except to delete old embedded portlet preferences except you can't tell which ones are still useful because of #3.

You are actually correct and that is really it's sole intention. In fact this ".. except you can't tell which ones are still useful because of #3". This is impossible and actually why we need this page in the first place. There is no actual way to know if the portlet IS still being used on the page because a portlet that is still used is actually hard coded somewhere in the developers code with no way for the portal to know where that is.

3) Following your example: My page still shows the Directory portlet as Active even though it is no longer on the page.

Again, deleting the portlet preference DOES NOT REMOVE the portlet from the page. It only deletes the portlet preferences! This, once again, is the point of this page.

Without this page the DB is basically filling up with portlet preferences that are completely unreachable.

Thanks, for the explanation Ray. I am going to change the description of this story to express these items a bit more clearly.

Tomas, can we change the warning message to this: "Selected portlets will have their preferences deleted. If the embedded portlet still exists, their preferences will be reset to default settings."

Hi David, would the following message suffice?

"Warning! Preferences of selected portlets will be replaced with default settings."

That could work. Do you think we need to mention that there will be some preferences that are completely removed?

Hi David. Let's tack that onto the end of it like this ...

"Warning! Preferences of selected portlets will be replaced with default settings. Preferences will be deleted for portlets that no longer exist."

I'll submit the change.