A portlet is a window portion providing a synthetic piece of content on a portal page. This content may be static, or dynamic – with interfaces for dialogue with the user, and with data/graphical information/transactions provided by back-end applications.

NOP Portlets are configurable within the portal, and give access to more detailed information: tools and applications, news, reference material, web pages….

In the Portal, the Portlets are grouped by nature and usage, as explained in the Global Layout section.

There are two buttons in the Title bar, one collapsing or expanding the portlet to respectively  reveal  or  hide  its content, and the other  to call a Contextual help window.

A portlet will typically show a very synthetic rendering of the data, and whenever relevant present some basic navigation, filtering or querying mechanism to facilitate the retrieval of more detailed information.

This information is presented through pop up windows: Detached Lists or Detached Views, depending on the content.