Exercise 2.3: Run the portal application in the WebSphere Portal Test Environment
Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 2.2: Customizing the portal site.
Test the portal application in WebSphere Portal Test Environment
To verify that the Auction is working as intended, you should run the Auction portal on the WebSphere Portal Test Environment. To run the portal project and test the application with live values, do the following:
- Select the AuctionPortal project in Project Explorer.
- From the AuctionPortal pop-up menu, Select Run > Run on Server.
- From the list of available server types, select Select WebSphere Portal v5.1 Test Environment.
- Click Finish.
- After a few moments, when the portal application is displayed in a browser window, type % in the Name field of the User Admin portlet. The % character is a wildcard that will display all users.

- Click the Find button.
The page will return a list users in the data table.
- Click one of the ID values in the table to update user information.
- Click Create to create a new user.
- Next, click on the Listing page on the portlet.
- Type % in the Title field of the Listing Search portlet to display all available listings.

- Click the down arrow icon next to one of the available items, and select Show Detail. Observe the detail information provided in the Listing Detail portlet:

You have now completed all of the exercises in this tutorial. To review the content that we have covered, see the Create a portal application tutorial summary.