When you installed WebSphere Portal 6.1 in the Admin Installation mode, new virtual portals only contain a home page, but are missing the Administration section.
In general, you can customize the XML Access Script that is used for creating or re-initializing virtual portals, which is described
here.
In the attachment, you find a customized initialization script that can be used to create new virtual portals that contain the Administration section. It has been successfully tested in WebSphere Portal Admin installations.
Follow these steps to make use of the attachment:
- Copy the xml file to the /installedAppwps.ear/wps.war/virtualportal directory
- In the Portal, switch to the edit mode ("Edit Shared Settings") of the Virtual Portal Administrative Portlet and configure the new file name ("InitAdminVirtualPortal2.xml") as the initialization script
- Create a new Virtual Portal or re-initialize an existing one to execute and verify the script
Updated script 2009-03-25, file InitAdminVirtualPortal2_v3.xml:
Incorporated suggestions from a fellow IBMer to include the Personalization Picker application and page so that the "Show Portlet Rule Mappings" link works on the Edit Layout Page.
Updated script 2009-07-27, file InitAdminVirtualPortal2_v4.xml:
Added portlets and pages to include the portlet and people picker functionality in the virtual portal.
Updated script 2010-01-18, file InitAdminVirtualPortal2_v5.png (rename to .xml):
Added an application and transformation instance for PZN (personalisation) rules that previously did not correctly work in the virtual portal created with the script.
Update 2010-02-24, InitAdminVirtualPortal2_v5 seems to work wtih Portal 6.1.5
Updated script 2010-08-10, file InitAdminVirtualPortal2_v6.png (rename to .xml):
Added a few hidden pages, e.g. for directory search, that were still missing in the previous scripts. Tested with Portal 6.1.5.
Note: The script is provided as is without any warranty or support statement.