17.4 Using Detail on a page

If you want to provide users with self service for displaying and possibly editing their own attribute data, you can add the Detail portlet to a shared page. When used on a shared, the Detail portlet automatically accesses the data of the current user (or other default entity).

For example, user Bill Brown can log in and go to the following personal page to maintain his own information via the Detail portlet:

To determine which entity definition the Detail portlet is to use in this scenario (where it’s accessed on a page, not launched by another portlet), you specify the Default ‘My Profile’ Entity setting in the Configuration element of the directory abstraction layer.