Session settings stored by the portal

After a user logs out or the session times out, the portal stores the complete navigational state into the database.

This includes the following navigational state information:

  • Portlet states:
    • Normal
    • Minimized
    • Maximized
  • Portlet modes:
    • config
    • edit_defaults
    • edit
    • view
    • help
  • Page selection:
    • The last page that was active before the user logged out.
Note: Resuming the session state is only possible if either the portal theme login link or WebSphere® Application Server TAI based authentication is used to login to the portal. Whenever a URL is directly used to login or address a resource, this will overwrite the complete session state that is to be resumed and address the named resource with the default states and modes for its portlets. For example, this occurs when users use ../wps/myportal/ or ../wps/myportal/name/ for a URL mapping or friendly name