Adding a Plugin Portlet to Liferay Control Panel

Sometimes situations arises when we want to add our custom made plugin portlet to Liferay Control Panel.

To do so we need to made some entries in liferay-portlet.xml .  These are as follows-

1. control-panel-entry-category: It spefies the 'category' where your portlet will appear.

2. control-panel-entry-weight: weight determines the position among the other portlet listed in that category.

3. control-panel-entry-class: The name of a class that implements the ControlPanelEntry interface.

It’s not necessary to specify the class but depends on our requirement.

Here is an example-

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

<control-panel-entry-weight>100</control-panel-entry-weight>

NOTE- Make sure you provide a unique weight for your plugin portlet otherwise any liferay out of the box portlet with the same weight will override your portlet.