Tag Login Portlet
Today’s an easy one for you all. It’s been around forever (years!), but I usually find myself working on existing portals and not having to customize the login portlet, so I often forget about these files existing. Even if you’ve got a mature portal, if nothing else these are working adaptive tag reference samples that ship with your ALUI portal. I’ve mentioned simple string replacement as a means of “customizing” the login portlet, but if you really want to tweak its look and feel, you no longer have to use the UI Customization installer and muck around in the depths of the MVC model (at least, that’s how we used to do it in 5.x).
Instead, just find your friendly Tag Login Portlet in the “Portal Resources” folder:
Rather than using the old intrinsic portlet (which required breaking out the UICI for customization), this login portlet brings in HTML riddled with those magic and versatile adaptive tags from the image server:
Just load up the folder and tweak away! Notice there’s also a tagnav folder that contains a sample header, which is chock-full of useful tag examples if you want a jump start on creating your own custom headers.
So you may be wondering why I bring up such a benign topic. Well, for now, just trust me: tags are your friends. Learn them. Live them. Love them. More to come.
