Working With the Blogs Pagelet

This topic discusses personalizing and using Blogs pagelet.

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

Personalize Blogs Page

EPPDF_USER_PREF

Select the blogs and options for display in your Blogs pagelet.

The Blogs pagelet lists blogs, posts, and replies. If you do not personalize the Blogs pagelet, the pagelet displays the first 10 blogs to which you have access, including those blogs created with the Show in the Blogs Pagelet by Default for All Members option selected, with three posts per blog and three replies per post. When it appears in the right (wide) column of a two-column layout, the pagelet also provides identification of the author of a post or reply, as well as the date of the post. In any other column, the pagelet does not provide this additional information.

Use the Personalize Blogs page (EPPDF_USER_PREF) to select the blogs and options for display in your Blogs pagelet.

Navigation:

Click the Customize button in the Blogs pagelet.

The following example illustrates the Personalize Blogs page.

 Personalize Blogs page

Use the Personalize Blogs page to select the blogs and options for display in your Blogs pagelet.

Field or Control

Description

Number of Blogs

Enter the maximum number of blogs you want to display in the pagelet. The default value is 10. The maximum number is 99.

Number of Posts per blog

Enter the maximum number of posts that you want to display per blog in the pagelet. The default value is 3. The maximum number is 99.

Number of Comments per Post

Enter the maximum number of comments you want to display per post in the pagelet. The default value is 3. The maximum number is 99,999.

Order Blogs

Select one of the following:

  • Alphabetically - Ascending — Select to sort by blog title in ascending order.

  • None - Default Sorting — Select to have no sort order. This is the default.

  • Time Ascending — Select to sort by date and time of creation in ascending order.

  • Time Descending — Select to sort by date and time of creation in descending order.

  • User Defined — Select to order explicitly by number. An Order of Appearance column appears in the My Blogs grid.

Select All

Select to select all blogs.

Clear All

Select to clear all selected blogs.

Selected

Select the blogs you want to display on the pagelet.

The following example illustrates the Blogs pagelet. Access the Blogs pagelet on the portal homepage.

 Blogs pagelet

Use the Blogs pagelet to access and manage blogs, posts, and comments.

Field or Control

Description

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Click the Add New Post button to access the Create New Post page within the corresponding blog.

<Blog Title>

Click a blog link to access the blog's homepage on which you can view details about the blog.

The hover text of the blog link displays the description of the blog.

<Post Title>

Click a post link to access the post details page on which you can view details about the post.

<Comment Title>

Click a comment link to access the post details page on which you can view details about the post and comment.

Create Blog

Click to access the Create Blog page from which you can create a new blog. This link displays for users with blog creation privileges.

Administer Blogs

Click to access to the Administer Blogs page for all blogs. This link displays for portal administrators only.

My Blogs

Click to access to the My Blogs page.

Search Blogs

Click to access the Search Blogs page on which you can perform a search of text in the blogs to which you belong.

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Hover over any of these to view the list of feeds published for this blog. Click any list item to open that feed document.

Click the Feed button or Feed link to open the first feed document in the list.

Click the Open menu button to toggle the list of feeds between frozen open and closed.

See Viewing and Subscribing to Feeds.