The Portal Pane Settings section of the General tab allows you to:
•Identify the portal pane by giving it a title and a unique identifying key.
•Set the background color of the portal pane.
•Give users specified controls to the selected portal pane.
The following table describes the items in the Portal Pane Settings section.
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Description
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Comments
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Title
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Enter a name (maximum 250 characters) that uniquely identifies the portal pane. This name appears in the following locations:
•The solution developer's Portal Panes screen. •User's Select Content to Add pop-up window displayed by clicking the Add Content link on their home page. •The title bar of the portal pane. |
As long the Editable by user check-box is selected, the title bar of the portal pane appears for the user--even if the Show title bar check-box is not selected.
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Unique Key
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Enter an alphanumeric combination to uniquely identify the portal pane content. After you save the settings, you can edit this field only if it is blank.
The unique key cannot contain spaces, underscores, punctuation, or any special characters and cannot exceed 50 characters in length.
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Background Color
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(Optional) Click the Color Picker icon next to the filed and select the desired color from the pop-up window that appears.
If no background color is specified for the portal pane, the background color will be the normal background color defined in System Settings.
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Search View content items always use the background color defined in System Settings. Custom Content items always use the background colors defined in their Java class files.
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Show title bar
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Select this check-box to display the title bar of the portal pane. For example:

If the appropriate options are turned on, it also displays buttons so that users can edit, move, resize, or delete the portal pane.
You can choose which options to turn on.
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Changes made by one user from their own home page, do NOT affect the same home page of another user.
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Editable by user
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Select this check-box to allow users to edit the contents of the portal pane within their home page.
The edit button is available from the portal pane title bar.
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Portal Pane Setting Dependencies
How the settings of your portal pane take effect depends upon the settings of the home page on which that portal pane appears. The following table shows all the possible combinations of portal pane and home page settings, along with the resulting portal pane functionality:
Home Page and Portal Page Setting Combinations
Home page settings
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Portal pane settings
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Results
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For the portal pane, user can
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See title bar
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Edit
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Move
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Resize
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Remove
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