Adding a portlet to an existing portlet page

[malmit]

Is it possible to add a portlet from a different portlet web application to an existing portlet page? Right now, I have to manually add the portlet to the page via the portlet admin console.

[malmit]

"malmit" wrote:
Is it possible to add a portlet from a different portlet web application to an existing portlet page? Right now, I have to manually add the portlet to the page via the portlet admin console.

I forgot to mention deployment via configuration/deployment descriptor since it is already possible to do this from the web admin console

[dvanwest]

Does this help?

http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=123030

[malmit]

No, that doesn't help because i'm not using dashboards. Right now the -object.xml file only has overwrite and keep as options when deploying portlets. If I use overwrite then the entire page is replaced with my new portlets and if I use keep then my new portlets are not added to the existing page. Due to the lack of responses, I'm guessing the JBoss Portal V.2.7.0 does not support this feature.

[peterj]

Two options I can think of. One is to log in as admin and add the portlet to the page using the admin portal. The second is to create a second *-object.xml file that places the new portlet on the desired page (yes your project can have multiple *-object.xml files). This *-object.xml file would not create the page, only the portlet window, and it would reference the portlet page. Something like this:

<deployments>
 <deployment>
 <if-exists>keep</if-exists>
 <parent-ref>portletname.pagename</parent-ref>
 <window>
 <window-name>XXXPortletWindow</window-name>
 <instance-ref>XXXPortletInstance</instance-ref>
 ...
 </window>
 </deployment>
</deployments>

Actually, you could probably replace the existing *-object.xml file with the above contents and have it work.