The portlets implement the “view tier”, they are responsible for rendering the results computed by the server component. Portlet technology was chosen over “traditional” web-application techniques, because flexible customization was a high-priority project goal.
You can set up any portal page, which can contain any number of the portlets in various layouts. Also, you can mix Kosmos portlets with portlets coming from other projects or vendors, without any restriction. The deployment and configuration process is portlet container-dependent, thus it is out of the scope of this document. Please refer to the technical documentation of your particular container.
Using the portlet user interfaces should be straight-forward. There are a set of common features supported by all the portlets:
You can minimize, maximize each portlet or get some help by clicking the icons in the titlebar (provided your portlet container supports this and your portal theme doesn't hide those controls).
You can sort the items in the tables in ascending or descending order by clicking to the column headers.
You can get detailed information related to a given attribute by clicking the information icons.