Portlets in Arena
There are more than 40 Arena-specific portlets that may be used to serve the needs for an Arena site.
A number of standard Liferay portlets are also supported and tested with Arena, and those are included in this documentation. There are many more Liferay portlets, of which most also works with Arena.
All portlets have a set of configurations. All configurations apply to the portlet instance only, which means that if a portlet is used several different times on a page or on different pages it can (and has to) be configured for each one. This means that a portlet can look and behave differently according to what is needed in the specific instance.
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Symbols in the list of portlets
A portlet with this symbol can be added several times on a page.
A portlet with this symbol can only be added once on each page.
Portlets required for basic Arena functionality
The following portlets are needed to fulfill basic Arena functionality:
My fees or Charges + Payment history
The following Liferay portlets are used in the default Arena installation:
Placement of portlets
Although Arena is a very flexible system for web publishing, there are some portlets, such as Search results and patron-related portlets that are placed on particular pages in the default installation - keep these as is and do not move them to other pages. Do not change names or add translations for the pages that are part of the default installation.
The portlets Language, Navigation, Search, Account, Top list, Media list and Results list can be placed on any page. So can Purchase suggestion, Interlibrary loan request and Feedback to library, but Purchase suggestion and Interlibrary loan request require that the user signs in.
Any portlet that starts with “Admin” and the portlet About Arena are administrative pages, hidden from end users.
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