Hi,

I'm a newbie to portlets so please forgive what I suspect to be a
simple question.

I have one portlet which I want to appear on two pages but running in
different 'modes'. By modes I mean have a different value passed into
it which determines the initial jsp is displayed.

I've created two instances of my portlet & assigned one to each of my
pages. The portlet's config page saves the initial setting using
PortalPreferences :-

String initialPage =
request.getParameter("initialPage");
String [] initialPageArray = new String[] {initialPage};
PortletPreferences myPrefs = request.getPreferences();
myPrefs.setValues("initialPage", initialPageArray);
myPrefs.store();

This appears to be working as I see a different setting when I go into
the config page for each instance of the portlet.

In the doView of my portlet-class I have the following code :-

response.setContentType("text/html");
PortletPreferences myPrefs = request.getPreferences();
String initialPage = myPrefs.getValue("initialPage", "holdings");
String page=request.getParameter("page");

if (page == null){
if(initialPage.equalsIgnoreCase("holdings")){
page = "a.jsp";
} else {
page = "b.jsp";
}
}
PortletRequestDispatcher rd =
getPortletContext().getRequestDispatcher(page);
rd.include(request, response);

The problem is that even though I have two instances of the portlet
they both always show the same initial page. In other words changing
one of the instances config setting affects the behaviour of both
instances, but changing the other instances config setting has no
effect at all.

Any ideas?

Thanks.