Portlets

Cognos Portlets
Portal Services provides a number of portlets.

Using TM1 Viewer Portlets in IBM Cognos 8
IBM Cognos Connection pages provide quick access to IBM Cognos TM1® information. You can create a page with TM1 information. The TM1 content for pages is provided by the following portlets:

Other Portlets
The other portlets include non-Cognos portlets that conform to the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard, such as Oracle portlets, or Sun portlets. Verification and support for these remote portlets may be incomplete because WSRP is a new standard for remote portlets that is still in the process of implementation by many vendors.

Import Portlets
You can import non-Cognos portlets into IBM Cognos Connection if the portlets conform to the WSRP standard.

Control Access to Portlets
You can control access to portlets by setting access permissions to specify which portlets are available to which users and what kind of actions the users can perform on a specific portlet. You can set access permissions individually for each portlet, or at the group level.

Configure the portlet cache
Portal Services can cache the portlet markup fragments that are used to quickly regenerate recent views of the portlets in pages. These markup fragments are compressed and stored on the server computer as part of the session object.

Modify a Portlet
You can define the default content and appearance of portlets. The settings become the default for all users who use the portlet. You can lock the portlet for editing if you want to prevent other users from changing the settings.

Display the HTML code from the source RSS feed in RSS viewer and IBM Cognos navigator
RSS channels might contain HTML code sequences as part of their title and description fields. For security reasons, the HTML code, if present in the source RSS feed, is disabled in the news list view in the portlets RSS Viewer and IBM Cognos Navigator. Instead, a series of HTML control characters is displayed in the title and description fields of both portlets.