Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List V5.1

The Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List (formerly Sametime) V5.1 portlet displays an inline list of people that the user has compiled and with whom the user wants to chat online or include in online meetings. Instances of this portlet appear on all pages of the Collaboration Center as "Sametime Contact List."

The Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List portlet displays the user's contact list from a Lotus Instant Messaging server that is set up to work with WebSphere Portal.

Users must have the appropriate access to the Lotus Instant Messaging server that has been set up for use with Collaborative Services. Collaborative Services logs the user into Lotus Instant Messaging, so a user does not have to enter a name and password.

By default, the LTPA token generated from WebSphere Portal is used to log the user into Lotus Instant Messaging. As portal administrator, you can change this behavior by modifying the useLTPAToken flag in the CSEnvironment.properties file. If the flag is set to false, Sametime tokens will be used. In this case, configure the Lotus Instant Messaging server enabled for the portal to generate and accept these tokens.

Note: The Lotus Instant Messaging server must have a security level enabled. For more information, see Installing IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing under See also.

Test assumptions

The Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List portlet has been tested on and is compatible with all supported WebSphere Portal platforms, as listed in Supported hardware and software.

Set up the Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List portlet

For Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List, make sure your WebSphere Portal environment meets the following client and server requirements.

Client requirements

This portlet supports browsers and devices capable of rendering HTML markup. The following table provides detailed information.

Minimum requirements for HTML
Markup level	HTML 4.01 Transitional
Java applet	1.1 applets
JavaScript	1.20
<iframe>	No
Style sheets	Portal styles only
Software	This portlet has been tested on the following browsers: Internet Explorer V6.0 with the following Java software: Sun JVM 1.4.1 IBM JDK 1.4.1 or IBM JDK/JRE 1.4.1 Microsoft JVM 1.1.8 Mozilla 1.41 on Linux with the following Java software: Sun JVM 1.4.1
Accessibility	Yes

Server requirements

The Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List portlet displays information from a Domino back-end server that is configured to work with Collaborative Services in the portal and that is running Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing.

The portlet is compatible with the following versions of Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (previously known as Sametime):

As portal administrator, you configure the Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing back-end server after the installation of Collaborative Services, if the server is not already configured. See See also.

Note: You are also responsible for restarting the Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing server and then the portal server if users report seeing the following error in the Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List portlet:

Deployment/Installation

This portlet is installed automatically as part of WebSphere Portal installation.

Configuration parameters