Use rules

Rules are used to define how your Web site interacts with individual and groups of Web site visitors. Rules are composed of easy-to-read logic statements that, in their final form, specify how to evaluate various conditions and what actions to take based on those conditions.

• The Personalization interface

  The Portal Personalization user interface consists of three portlets: the Personalization Navigator, Personalization Editor, and the Personalized List.

• Publish personalization rules

  WebSphere Portal Personalization sends published rules across HTTP to a servlet which resides on each personalization server. This servlet can receive publishing data or initiate new publishing jobs. When a user begins a publishing job from the personalization authoring environment, the local servlet is provided with the set of information necessary to complete the job. The local servlet contacts the destination endpoint servlet (which could be the same servlet) and sends its data to it. The destination servlet reports success or failure.

• The Web Content resource collection

  The Web Content resource collection is installed and configured out of the box. This predefined collection allows you to write rules that select lists of content from IBM Lotus Web Content Management. Rules specify which Web content to show in a Portal Personalization component in Web Content Management.

• The Portal User resource collection

  Portal Personalization comes with a Portal User resource collection. This collection uses public APIs provided by WebSphere Portal to access user information.

Parent topic:

Personalizing your content

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