Collaboration

Collaboration features in WebSphere Portal are provided through the Dominoand Extended Products Portlets. Domino and Extended Products are the Domino Enterprise server and IBM LotusSametime®.

Portlets are the mechanism by which the Domino server products are fully integrated into WebSphere Portal. Domino and Extended Products Portlets provide an online directory with people awareness, and integrated tools for managing online meetings. All these collaboration features help people in organization work together and share information online to achieve their business goals. A collaborative portal can improve organization's responsiveness, innovation, competencies, and efficiency.

For information on supported versions of IBM Lotus Domino and IBM Lotus Sametime, see the WebSphere Portal detailed system requirements.

Collaborative Portlets

Examples of all the Domino and Extended Products Portlets are supplied on the Collaboration page and on the Messaging page. The portlets are installed with WebSphere Portal and deployed automatically, requiring of the administrator only a number of server and other configuration tasks before users can take advantage of a suite of integrated collaborative applications.

Domino and Extended Products Portlets include:

• iNotes®

• Sametime Contact List

• Lotus NotesView

• People Finder

• Who Is Here

People awareness

Users can view contact and other typical business card information for a registered user by displaying the Person card. The Person card is available through a wide range of portal components including Domino and Sametime integration, composite applications, personalization, and Web content authoring. To view the Person card, move the cursor over an active (underlined) person's name and then select Click for Person Card.

When Lotus Sametime is enabled in the portal configuration, users can work with the complete set of people awareness functionality, which includes instant messaging and application sharing through e-meetings. Person names appear aware - with a dynamic online status indicator. Click Profile to display full information about the person. Additional actions can include:

• Send Mail

• Chat

• Add as Sametime Contact

If you choose not to enable Lotus Sametime in the portal configuration, people awareness functionality is more limited. People's names appear as hyperlinks, but with no people awareness icon next to each name, and available actions on the Person card are limited to those that are native to WebSphere Portal.

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