WebSphere Portal Server - What is the point of PortletData?

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What is the point of PortletData?

Athar Shiraz

2007-02-24, 7:17 pm

Beyond the fact that portletdata is editable and accessible in edit mode, I am wondering what the point of portletdata is?

In the config mode you can access portletSettings and I understand the point of that. It allows you to view and change the parameters you defined in portlet.xml (for the concrete portlet). Your administrator may go in and use this to configure these param
eters.

But what is the use of this portletdata? who gets to usually access it? end user? and why would you want someone accessing portletdata over portletsettings? what can the end user edit? their portlet related information I suppose.