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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Adding Portlet Configurations at Instance and System Level

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Thanga Meena

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Issue

  • How to rename the category and section. It should be excluding the substring "category."?
  • How the configuration will be accessible under settings?

Environment

Resolution

  • Making application configurable is easy and flexible using the configurable app API. it allows a user with certain privileges to configure the application.
  • To rename the category or session name, provide the localized values for the keys based on the deployed module. 
  • Navigate to the Language.properties file [src/main/resources/content/Language.properties] and provide localized values for these keys in the module’s 
  • Example:  

                            # Rename the category key: 
                            Eg: category.new-catg= New Catg
                            ---------
                            # Rename the Section key: 
                            Eg: category-section.app= New Sec

  • Please note, the above steps might require modification as per the custom deployed module.
  • To quickly see a working application configuration, deploy the configuration-action Blade sampleNavigate to 
    [Control PanelConfigurationSystem Settings  Platform → Third Party / Message display configuration entry]
  • Reference giffy for the same 
  • working_fine_-_samples.gif

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