1. A method for selectively enabling portlets comprising: providing a portal including a plurality of portlets; determining a portlet enablement event associated with at a set of at least one of the portlets, wherein said set is less than a total number of portlets in the plurality; and responsive to the portlet enablement event, changing portlet enablement states of each portlet in the set without changing portlet enablement states of portlets in the plurality that are not part of the set.