Adding a Plugins Portlet to the Control Panel

Step 1:Specify where the portlet will appear in Control Panel

Open your liferay-portlet.xml. Add the below tags after <icon> tag

<control-panel-entry-category>apps</control-panel-entry-category>

<control-panel-entry-weight>0</control-panel-entry-weight>

 

 

Note 1: In the above code the line <control-panel-entry-category>apps</control-panel-entry-category> says where our portlet will appear in the Control Panel.  

 

Note 2: The Tag <control-panel-entry-weight> represents location vertically in the given category. According to our code Book Portlet will appear at first position in apps category. 

 

Step 2:Make the portlet hidden

In this step we put the portlet in hidden category so that it's not available anywhere other than Control Panel. This is done by modifying liferay-display.xml. For example.

 

<display>

<category name="category.hidden">

<portlet id="book-portlet" />

</category>

</display>

 

That's it. Now your portlet available in Control Panel.