Configure: displays the consumer details and allows user to edit them.

Refresh: forces the consumer to retrieve the service description from the remote producer to refresh the local information (offered portlets, registration information).

Activate/Deactivate: activates/deactivates a consumer, governing whether it will be available to provide portlets and receive portlet invocations.

Register/Deregister: registers/deregisters a consumer based on whether the registration is required and/or acquired

Delete: destroys the consumer, after deregistering it if it was registered.

Export: exports some or all of the consumer's portlets to be able to later import them in a different context

Import: imports some or all of previously exported portlets