Portal form
Completing the Tabs tab

Field

Description

Click the triangle to access two arrays that define the contents and location of the gadgets on the corresponding workspace. Click the down-pointing arrow to hide these arrays.

Enter a name that indicates the purpose of the bar, such as Work or Reports, using only letters. This field, known as the space name, is an internal label and does not appear in the portal. The space names Work, Rules, and Tools are reserved and create specific capabilities.

Enter a title that appears in the bar. For example, enter "Administer" to define a bar that appears as .

If your application is to support users in multiple locales, choose a noun or noun phrase for the title, and maintain a list of the titles. When practical, choose a title already included in a language pack, to simplify later localization. See About the Localization wizard.

Select one radio button in this column to control which bar and corresponding workspace appears open by default when a user first logs in.

Field

Description

Enter the second key part — Stream Name — of an HTML rule in the Data-Gadget class. (Click the pencil icon () to open this rule.)

Alternatively, enter the second key part — Activity Name — of an activity that implements a custom gadget. This activity must be entered in the Custom tab of this rule.

For an example, see Pega Developer Network article PRKB-24158 How to add a chart to the WorkManager portal.

Optional. Enter a text phrase that is to identify this gadget as presented in the portal. You can enter an equals sign and an expression here, such as

=" Your node is "+ pxProcess.pxSystemNode

If your application is to support users in multiple locales, choose a noun or noun phrase for the title, and maintain a list of the titles. When practical, choose a title already included in a language pack, to simplify later localization. See About the Localization wizard.

Optional. Identify the (relative) path and name of a GIF file that is to identify this gadget in the portal. Form this from the second and third key part of a binary file rule.

For example, enter /images/rpcalendar.gif to select the image defined by the binary file rule named webwb.rpcalendar.gif.

Click the magnifying glass icon () to start the Image Catalog tool to select an image.

Select to indicate that the value in the Gadget column is an activity name, not an HTML rule name. On the Custom tab of this rule form, enter parameter values for each such activity.

Field

Description

Select to cause the system to refresh the contents of this area when this workspace is visible and a user accesses the work pool selector in the navigation area to choose a new work pool.

Select to cause the display of this gadget to appear in expanded form when the workspace is first presented.

For example, when not expanded, a gadget may appears as:

The expanded form shows the contents of the gadget:

Select to cause the HTML code for this gadget to be generated and sent to a user's Internet Explorer session only when the gadget is explicitly opened by a user click. This choice reduces the initial computation and HTTP message length when this workspace is initially presented.

This field is available only when Expanded? is not selected.