Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Use the Common PIM portlets with Domino
When IBM® Lotus® Domino® is the back-end mail system, the Common PIM (Personal Information Management) portlets use Lotus Collaborative Services, which can query the Lotus Domino LDAP directory to get the user's mail file and server and use single sign-on (SSO) to log the user into the mail server automatically.
These portlets, also known as Common Mail and Common Calendar, support displaying information stored within Notes mail databases located on a Lotus Domino server that has Lotus Domino XML services enabled.
The Common PIM portlets are compatible with Lotus Domino 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 7.0, 7.0.1, and 7.0.2. However, for support of all Common Calendar features, such as the group calendar and rich text attachments, Lotus Domino 7.02 is required. For more information on specific releases of Lotus Domino, see Supported hardware and software. Refer to the requirements for the relevant release of WebSphere Portal Express, and then see the Software for collaboration section. For more information, see Known limitations for Common PIM portlets in the release notes.
The following topics describe how to configure your Lotus Domino environment to support the use of the Common PIM portlets.
Overview of information:
- About automatic detection of mail files
Messaging portlets are configured by default to detect a user's source mail file (a Notes database) based on the identity with which the user signs into the portal. The LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services, and Single Sign-On configuration for the portal site, are requirements to support this feature. - Checklist of tasks: LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services
A server that runs the LDAP service is a requirement to support automatic mail detection in the following portlets: Lotus Notes View, Domino Web Access, Common Mail and Common Calendar (when using an IBM Lotus Domino back-end server). - 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). Your portal site may include one or many such messaging/application servers. - Setting up the Common PIM portlets and Lotus Domino to work together
To prepare a IBM Lotus Domino server to work with the Common Mail and Common Calendar portlets, make sure that some required settings exist on the server. - Enabling SSL connections to a Domino server
To configure the Common Mail and Common Calendar portlets to work over SSL, you use the IBM Key Management Utility (IKeyMan) supplied by IBM WebSphere® Application Server to exchange the IBM Lotus Domino SSL certificate with the WebSphere Application Server trust key stores. - Enabling a third-party authentication server to work with the Common PIM portlets
If IBM Lotus Domino is your back-end system and your WebSphere Portal Express installation is configured for single sign-on through a third-party authentication system such as Computer Associates eTrust SiteMinder, messaging portlets such as Common Mail and Common Calendar require parameters to identify and pass third-party cookies, request headers, or both to the Lotus Domino server. - Enabling Group Calendar in Common Calendar
Group Calendars allow users to quickly see when other users are free or busy. Enabling the Group Calendar feature involves some configuration of both the IBM Lotus Domino server and Common Calendar portlet on WebSphere Portal Express, and may require portlet users to set a preference in their Lotus Notes mail databases.
Parent topic:
Messaging: the Common PIM portlets
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