Personalizing Your Homepage Layout

Use either of these two methods to modify the layout of your portal homepage:

  • Move pagelets on the Personalize Layout page.

  • Drag and drop pagelets on the portal homepage.

The following example illustrates the Personalize Layout Page (My Page tab). Access the Personalize Layout Page (click the Layout link on the homepage tab that you want to personalize) as shown below.

Personalize Layout page (My Page tab)

Use the Personalize Layout page to designate the layout of content on the homepage tab.

Field or Control

Description

Tab Name

Displays the name of this tab as specified on the Personalize Content page.

Basic Layout

Select to display the pagelets in either two or three columns on the portal homepage.

Personalize Content

Click to access the Personalize Content page to add or delete pagelets

Left Column, Center Column, and Right Column

Displays the pagelets selected on the Personalize Content page under the assigned column headings.

If the basic layout is two columns, the pagelets are divided into left and right columns. If the basic layout is three columns, the pagelets are divided into left, center, and right columns.

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Use the Move Left, Move Up, Move Right, and Move Down buttons to position a pagelet.

Select a pagelet, and then click the directional arrow buttons to move the selected pagelet up in the list, down in the list, to the next column to the right, or to the next column to the left.

Delete Pagelet

Select a pagelet and then click Delete Pagelet to delete the pagelet from the homepage tab.

Field or Control

Description

Save

Click to save your changes and return to the portal homepage.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Portal Technology

You can also rearrange pagelets on the portal homepage by dragging and dropping them between columns.

To drag a pagelet, hover over the pagelet title bar; the cursor changes shape to indicate that you can drag the pagelet. Click and drag the pagelet. When you are in the new location—signified by the color change—release the mouse.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Applications User's Guide