By default, the installation process creates sample pages
for the different portlets. You can customize those pages to fit your
needs or remove them and create new pages. This article describes
how to configure the IBM® Connections
portlets on a WebSphere® Portal
page
Before you begin
Restriction: Do not place multiple instances
of the same portlet on a page. For example, putting two blog portlets
on a page might result in unexpected behavior and is not supported.
About this task
IBM Connections
portlets can be configured on multiple pages with different filtering
and display options. Community Pages (see Community Pages)
affect portlets that are configured on those pages. By default, IBM Connections portlets that are
placed on a community page filter the user's view to display content
from that community. A link to a piece of content from a community
resolves to a community page if there is an appropriate portlet to
display the content on a matching community page. For example, if
the Blogs portlet is configured on a "New Employees" community page,
the page renders a link in WebSphere Portal
to blog entries from that community (see Addressing IBM Connections content).
If an appropriate community page is not found, links to the content
in WebSphere Portal use
a set of default pages to display IBM Connections
content.
You can organize the pages any way you like and can
even hide them from your Portal site's main navigation so that users cannot
directly navigate to them. The following procedure creates one page
for each service under a label named "IBM Connections"
under the pre-defined "Home" page in WebSphere Portal. You can move the Connections
pages or create them elsewhere in your WebSphere Portal site structure. It is
only important that the unique names for the pages remain the same.
Procedure
- Define a label to contain the default pages.
- Define a label to contain the default pages.
- Click .
- Navigate to the page where you want to add a portlet. For example, navigate to Home.
- Click New Label. A
label is a container for WebSphere Portal
pages that does not itself contain content. Alternatively, create
a page if you want to place portlets or content on the page.
- Enter IBM Connections for the
title.
- Click OK.
- Define page unique names that indicate the portal page
users are directed to in order to view content from the Connections
services. These unique names are used in the Content resolver
component that handles the Portal page look up The lookup retrieves
the appropriate page when a user selects Connections search results
from the WebSphere Portal
Search Center, selects items from the Connections summary portlets,
or uses the URLs described in the Addressing IBM Connections content section. For each
of the rows in the table, do the following:
- Define a page for each service to serve as a default
page for content of that type.
- Click the IBM Connections label
you created in the prior step.
- Click New Page, enter the title
and unique name and create the page by clicking OK. The are suggested names, but you can modify them for your deployment.
Table 1. Suggested page and portlet titlesPage Title |
Unique Name |
Portlet Title |
Profiles |
ibm.conn.profiles |
Profiles |
Activities |
ibm.conn.activities |
Activities |
Blogs |
ibm.conn.blogs |
Blogs |
Bookmarks |
ibm.conn.bookmarks |
Bookmarks |
Forums |
ibm.conn.forums |
Forums |
Wikis |
ibm.conn.wikis |
Wikis |
Attention: Do not deploy an Activities portlet
or a Forums summary portlet on an anonymous page. The portlet page
must require users to authenticate.
- Add portlets to corresponding pages:
- Click the pencil icon (Edit Page Layout) next to a page.
- Click Add Portlets.
- Type the portlet title in the Search box and click Search.
- Select the check box next to the appropriate portlet,
then click OK.
- Click Done.
- Follow these steps to give users access to the page.
- Navigate to . Navigate to the first page that contains an IBM Connections Portlet.
- Click the Assign Access button
for the entry. For example, to allow non-admin users to
access the portlets, set the role "Privileged User" to "All authenticated
users." To allow anonymous access, set the role "User" to "Anonymous
Portal User."
- Click Apply and then Done.
- Repeat Steps a-d for each page that contains an IBM Connections Portlet.
Note: Page access may be inherited. If page access is not inherited
in your site structure, click the key icon (Edit access) next to each
page and add at least user access for each user or group that will
view Connections content in WebSphere Portal.