A method to control a portlet associated with a portal page may include
deactivating a selected portlet in response to operating a deactivation
feature. The method may also include reactivating the selected portlet in
response to operating a reactivation feature. The method may also include
freezing a portlet content in the selected portlet in response to
deactivating the selected portlet. The method may further include
disabling hyperlinks, buttons and other inputs to the selected portlet in
response to deactivating the selected portlet. The method may further
include reconfiguring a portal server to ensure that a portlet content of
a selected portlet cannot be affected while the selected portlet is
deactivated.