Checklist of tasks: Lotus Domino messaging/application servers and portlets
IBM Lotus Domino servers that contain source Notes databases are required for all the portlets that allow users to display and work with Notes mail databases (for example, Lotus Notes View, Common Mail, Domino Web Access) or Notes applications (for example, Lotus Notes View, Domino Document Manager, or the Lotus QuickPlace portlets). Our portal site may include one or many such messaging/application servers.
This topic provides information for configuring a Lotus Domino server in the Lotus Domino domain to support messaging and application portlets. Collaborative Services can communicate with Lotus Domino messaging/application servers over HTTP and DIIOP. The HTTP (Web server) task is required for any Lotus Domino portlet to work.
The drop-down list of servers
The DIIOP (Domino Internet Inter-Object Request Broker Protocol) task is optional, but supports a drop-down list of databases that appears when users personalize the Lotus Notes View, Domino Web Access, Domino Document Manager, My Lotus QuickPlaces, and Inline QuickPlace portlets. If the DIIOP task is not started on the Lotus Domino server, users must manually enter a database name in a field to point a portlet to its source data file.
After you complete the checklist below, the Lotus Domino configuration will be ready for us to include any Lotus Domino messaging/application servers in single sign-on (SSO).
Checklist of tasks:
- Starting the DIIOP and HTTP tasks automatically on the Lotus Domino server
You configure a Lotus Domino messaging/application server to support Collaborative Services and the Lotus Domino-based portlets by adding a setting to the NOTES.INI file that causes the server to start the DIIOP and HTTP (Web) server tasks each time the server starts. You must enable these tasks on each Domino messaging/application server in the portal environment.
- Allowing users to run Java agents
Modifying the Domino Server document in the Domino Directory database allows users of the Domino messaging/application server to run Java agents, and supports the use of the Notes-based portlets through users' browsers.
- Specifying a view column for awareness and chat in the Lotus Notes View portlet
The Lotus Notes View portlet can display awareness in any view that displays user names as data, but specify the column containing the data that should show the awareness features (person links).
- Setting up awareness and chat for Domino Web Access
Integrate Lotus Sametime in the Domino Web Access portlet so that users can send and receive instant messages, maintain an instant contacts list, and make the names of people in mail messages, views and folders online-aware.
Parent Topic
Integrating the Lotus Domino servers and portlets