Just a couple of clarifications. 1) I am trying to have some bhevaiour like a Message Portlet. So the Portl admins can change the message displayed to all portal users. Non-admin portal users will not be able to edit portlets to set user specific preferences. So one day the admins may set the preferences to show "Good Day" and the next day they may change the preferences to show "Great Day!!". 2) The admin user logs onto admin portal, changes Instance Window level preferences. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4084622#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...