You should not enable DnD outside the dashboard, the reason is simple: - Dashboard is per user, they move the windows it's persisted for them - Portal are for everybody, you don't want people to change the positions for all the others, or it will be a good mess, you connect and see that someone moved your windows. If the whole portal must be persisted per user, just use the dashboard and use it as default portal View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4079841#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...