This guide explains how to install and configure the Elastic Marts Builder portlet and its utilities.

This tutorial steps through install the Teradata Viewpoint Development Portal, a cut-down version of Viewpoint, on your local desktop machine. These instructions are specifically for Windows, though the PDK has been validated to work on Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris.

The Hello portlet demonstrates the simplest functional portlet that you can build. It has a simple, one-page design. When you add this portlet to your page, it prints the text "Hello, " followed by your portal username.

The first thing that we want to do is replace the summary view with our own content. Our Hello portlet is going to display "Hello, user!", where user is the user's portal login name. Since this is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) application, we need to make changes in each of these three areas. 

A preferences form allows the user to customize some aspect of a portlet instance. A portlet instance is a portlet that has been added to a page by a user. If a user adds the same portlet to a page twice, there will be two instances of the same portlet on the page. Each instance remembers its own preferences.

The following article describes how to fetch session data from the cache database and display it in a table.