Integrate Lotus Connections

Lotus Connections portlets give WebSphere Portal users access to additional collaboration and social networking features such as Activities, Blogs, and Bookmarks. Users can also view Lotus Connections business card information and link to Lotus Connections features directly from the portal server.

For Lotus Connections Version 2.0.1 or later, Show E-mail must be enabled on the Lotus Connections server to ensure that portal users can view profile information.

The instructions below explain how to enable the Lotus Connections profile in WebSphere Portal so that users can view IBM Lotus Connections business card information and link to features such as Communities, Blogs, and Activities. For information on installing the Lotus Connections portlets, see Related tasks below.

1. Search the Lotus Connections LDAP directory for the user whose profile you want to enable in WebSphere Portal and then add that user to the portal LDAP directory.

2. Ensure that ibm-primaryEmail is mapped to the appropriate attribute (for example, mail or email) in the LDAP, and that the e-mail address in the Lotus Connections LDAP matches the e-mail address in the portal LDAP.

3. Register the Lotus Connections server as follows:

   1. Open the administrative console.

   2. In the console navigation tree, select Resources > URL > URL Providers and then select the Default URL Provider at the top of the hierarchy. Next, under Additional Properties, select URLs.

   3. Click New and then specify these settings under General Properties:

      Name

      CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD

      JNDI name

      JNDI_CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD

      Specification

      http://yourConnectionsServer.domain.com/profiles/html/businessCard

      Category

      CATEGORY_CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD

   4. Click Save to save the changes to the master configuration.

4. In each theme folder, edit styles.jsp and add a line like this to include styles_people.jspf:

   <%@ include file="./styles_people.jspf" %>
   

5. Restart WebSphere_Portal and server1.

After enabling the Lotus Connections profile for a particular user, when you move the cursor over that person's active (underlined) name in WebSphere Portal, and then click Click for Person Card, you see the Lotus Connections profile for that person displayed in the business card section of the Person Card menu, with links to additional Lotus Connections features. Click the Profile link to see the user's full Lotus Connections profile.

To return to the WebSphere Portal page, click the Back button in the browser.

If you integrate Lotus Connections and then select a user who does not have a Lotus Connections profile, WebSphere Portal displays a blank profile page. Click the Back button to return to WebSphere Portal.

Parent topic:

Integrate with collaboration software

Related concepts

Collaboration and Messaging portlets

Related information

Installing the Lotus Connections portlet (2.x)
Installing the Connections portlets (2.5)

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