Administration Portlets

There are several administration portlets that control the functions of the DASH portal. To access them - login as an administrator and select Jetspeed Administration Portlets and click on MARVELit Admin

Setting Defaults and Default Data Base Connection

Selecting MARVELit Administration displays a page for setting the default data source, setting data maps and adding/updating data sources.

The first section is setting some default values and connections. The first selection Log Level tells DASH to write values to a log file on the portal server. The available selections are:

None: Nothing is written to the log file

Error: Only Errors are written

Warn: Only Warnings and Errors are written

Info: Only informational messages are written

Debug: Everything is written - including each sql query executed by every portlet

Obviously - setting the Log Level to Debug would be helpful in error correction. A production portal should have its log level set to None.

The second section is the Default Admin User Role - leave this value set to admin.

Finally - specific connection values are stored for the Default Connection Database. This connection information is used by the system to access the database where the DASH specific tables are stored. Once this is established - it should not need to be changed unless their is a server migration event.

This connection controls where the MARVELit specific tables are stored.

Setting Data Maps

In this example, the SALES folder is expanded.

Adding Data Sources

In this example, the SALES folder is expanded.