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Customizing Profiles
Customize Profiles by choosing which profile attributes are included in the Profiles user interface.
Every Profiles deployment is unique because the data model needs to reflect what is in the corporate for the organization. Customizing the attributes for your Profiles deployment does not require Web development skills but does require some familiarity with editing XML.
You can choose from a predefined set of Profiles attributes and then extend the data model with extension attributes. An extension attribute is an attribute that you supply to match a field in your corporate for which there is no existing predefined attribute.
- Customizing the Profiles user interface
Specify which attributes should display in Profiles based on the needs of your organization.- Specify external labels for attributes
In IBM Lotus Connections, you can apply custom labels stored in an external resource bundle to any attribute, editable attribute, or custom extension attribute.- Specify attributes that can be edited
Specify which attributes for your Profiles user interface should be able to be edited. Attributes that can be edited display on the Edit My Profile page.- Specify read-only attributes
When you want to specify an attribute that cannot be edited by users, you enclose the attribute in an <attribute> element.- Customizing login attributes
By default, Profiles looks at the login table and the three login attributes defined below to perform. To improve performance, you can comment out the attributes that are not used in your environment.- Add profile types
Profile types can be used to configure the layout of the main Profiles page and the layout of the widgets used in Profiles.- Add custom extension attributes for Profiles
You can customize the Profiles feature by adding custom extension attributes.- Customizing the business card
Customize the Profiles business card to meet the needs of your organization.- Customizing Profiles search
Edit the profiles-config.xml file to specify the fields that users can use when performing an advanced search of profiles. You can also edit the file to specify the fields that display on the search results page. The search results page can be configured for all types of search.