15.4 Hiding and Showing Portlets

In some situations, you may want to hide one or more portlets from view. For example, you may want to continue work on a portlet before you make it available to other users. You may want to hide a portlet in just your view of a page. When you hide a portlet by editing a page, other users are not able to see the portlet in View mode; however, you can still access it in Edit mode. When you hide a portlet while personalizing a page, the portlet is hidden in View mode of just your view of the page.

System level caching options affect whether a hidden portlet is visible in the Graphical view of page Edit mode. This is because when the page definition or the fully assembled page content is cached at the system level, the same information is rendered from the same source for all users:

• On pages cached at the user level, hidden portlets display (as Hidden) only to users with a minimum of the page or tab privilege Manage Content.

• On pages where the page definition only is cached at the system level, hidden portlets display (as Hidden) to all users.

• On pages cached at the system level for a specified period (expiry caching), hidden portlets display (as Hidden) to all users.

For information about user and system level caching, see Chapter 21, "Improving Page Performance".

This section describes how to hide portlets by editing a page. It describes how to hide a single portlet and how to hide multiple portlets simultaneously. It contains the following subsections:

• Section 15.4.1, "Hiding a Single Portlet"

• Section 15.4.2, "Hiding Multiple Portlets Simultaneously"

For information on hiding portlets while personalizing a page, see Section 2.3.4, "Hiding a Portlet on a Page".