One of the Personal Portlet sites (I think it was My Yahoo!) implements this in a way I thought would be useful...The user can add/delete/rearrange portlets on the home page EXCEPT for the top left portlet and the bottom right portlet (In their case, all pages were a 2- or 3-column page). These portlets tended to contain "try this new feature" and sponsor content. I do not recall if this applied to pages added by the user as well.
It seems to me that freezing only the first and last portlet on the page would simplify the development of such a feature: Perhaps the controller (or is it the control - I always mix up the terms ;) could say, "if I am in the 0,0 position, or in the x,100 (or some high number) position, do not display the "close" icon. I am not familir enough with the customizer to know how difficult it would be to implement there. Steve B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jetspeed Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:23 AM Subject: RE: making portlets always visible for new users > I am looking for configurations of portlets for different user groups. We > want some that are fixed, and many that are customizable for a particular > set of users. Is there some group tag or other mechanism that would allow > this sort of implementation? > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Nutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:17 PM > To: Jetspeed Users List > Subject: Re: making portlets always visible for new users > > > It seems to me that if you want a fixed portlet in a fixed location on > the page, the best approach would be to embed it in the template as a > macro/include rather than implementing it as a portlet. Would there be > any advantage to making it an actual portlet? Unless of course you did > want the user to be able to move it around on the page. > > Comments? > > Mark > > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 17:18, Paul Spencer wrote: > > Brian, > > I see this as a very useful feature. Some question on how you would use > > and maintain a "locked" portlet > > > > 1) How would parameter on the portlet be maintained? > > > > 2) Would the user be allowed to reposition the portlet in their portal? > > > > 3) Do you envision a adding and removing these portlets from existing > user? > > > > Paul Spencer > > > > Brian Keller wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to lock a portlet for a set of users so they always > > see it? I > > > know this goes against the typical usage of jetspeed, but it is a > > necessary > > > feature for us. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Brian > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
