Special Considerations for WebSphere Portal 6.0 and 6.1

In WebSphere® version 6.0 and 6.1, administrators have two types of configuration levels for defining the appearance of portlets: Administrator and Shared.

When using Administrator configuration that gives you access to the Configure mode of the portlet, your changes affect all instances of the portlet on all pages for all users.
When using Shared configuration that gives you access to the Edit shared settings mode of the portlet, your changes affect a particular instance of a portlet in a page and apply to all users.
A third type of configuration level named Personal that gives you access to the Personalize mode of the portlet is not available to administrators with the Shared configuration permissions. This is because IBM® Cognos® portlets support the IBM Portlet API. The changes made to a portlet using Personal configuration affect only the user's view of the portlet.