Overview of the portlet creation process

This section provides an overview of the steps for creating a portlet, which are described in detail elsewhere in this guide.

About this task

See the related references if you need more information about performing this procedure.

Procedure

  1. Obtain and prepare the URL of the page you want to use as a portlet.

    To do this, you obtain the URL and modify it as needed.

    You can create portlets from the following sources.

    • Digital Analytics for On Premises report
    • HCL® Cognos® report
    • Digital Analytics report
    • NetInsight OnDemand report and pages on the internet or your company intranet
  2. Add the URL to the Platform_Admin_URL.properties file.

    The Platform_Admin_URL.properties file is located in the conf directory under your Marketing Platform installation.

  3. Stop and restart the Marketing Platform web application.
  4. Add the portlet to a dashboard.