Thank you all for the reply. Actually, i have attempted a workaround solution but with no success. My approach is as follow: Use portlet admin mode in JBoss portal, and enable the admin mode for uncheck user role. It is possible to hide the admin mode from all users apart from admin, to do it, just simply hide all portlet decorations by using empty renderer or write a custom empty renderer. However, even with admin mode, uncheck users could not change the perferences, this is because all perferences are set to read-only if the user role is uncheck. I tried specifying read-only to false in portlet.xml, but still not success. So julien do you mean that I could use EDIT_DEFAULT mode with JSF portlet bridge?? Anyway, i will give that a go. Thanks again for the reply. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4164018#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...