Populating Virtual Portal

When you create the virtual portal by using the Virtual Portal Manager portlet, the virtual portal is pre-filled with default content. This default content is determined by the default XML script file for initializing virtual portals.


You can change name of this file by clicking on Edit Shared Settings button for Virtual Portal Manager Portal. The value of "xml script to create virtual portal content here" defines which XML script file should be used to configure content of VP. In my case its the default file initVirtualPortal.xml. The actual XML Access Script file is located in was_profile_root/installedApps/cellname/wps.ear/wps.war/virtualportal. If you go to this directory you will notice that there are 4 templates that you can choose from

1. InitAdminVirtualPortal.xml


2. InitFullVirtualPortal.xml


3. InitVirtualContentPortal.xml


4. InitVirtualPortal.xml

In addition to this you can create your own template or modify the existing template. The following portal resources are mandatory content of a virtual portal and must be included in a customized XML initialization script for virtual portals:

• Content Root (wps.content.root)


• Login (wps.Login)


• Administration (ibm.portal.Administration).

ONce you have your template ready copy that file in was_profile_root/installedApps/cellname/wps.ear/wps.war/virtualportal folder and specify name of the template file on the Edit Shared Settings. Thereafter whenever you create a new virtual portal using Virtual Portal Manager portlet, this template will be used

When you create a virtual portal, the portlets associated with IBM® Lotus Web Content Management are not included in the virtual portal, even if you have deployed these portlets as part of your original portal installation. To use any of these portlets in a virtual portal, you must manually create a page and add the portlets:

* Authoring portlet: Select Web Content Authoring when adding the portlet.
* Local or Remote Rendering portlet: Select Web Content Viewer when adding the portlet