Lotus Sametime portlets

You can use reference information on the LotusSametimeportlets when you modify their parameters in Administration. This portlets reference also includes information on new features in the current release, client and server requirements, and deployment/installation.

Prerequisites

Configure the WebSphere Portal server to recognize Lotus Sametime
Configure trust for the Sametime Contact List portlet

The Lotus Sametime portlets are:

• Sametime Contact List

• Who Is Here

Examples of the Lotus Sametime portlets appear on the Applications -> Collaboration page when you click Lotus Sametime. For information about tasks users can perform with the Lotus Sametime portlets, see the Help that is available from each portlet's title bar.

For those portlets with personalization settings, if you are an administrator, you see the command Edit Shared Settings instead of Personalize. This command works the same as Personalize except that changes apply to all users of the instance of the portlet whose settings you are editing, up until the time a user decides to personalize the portlet. Use caution when editing shared settings. For more information, see the topic on configuration levels for portlets..

As with the other Dominoand Extended Products Portlets, person links are available in the Lotus Sametime portlets.

Consider adding the Sametime Contact List portlet to the People palette, making it a central location for awareness and collaboration in site.

Use the Lotus Sametime portlets

Sametime Contact List portlet

The Sametime Contact List portlet displays an inline list of people that the user has compiled and with whom the user wants to chat online or include in online meetings. The portlet displays the user's contact list from a Sametime Instant Messaging server that is set up to work with the portal.

Do not add more than one instance of the portlet to a page of site.

Who Is Here portlet

The Who Is Here portlet displays an inline list of people currently logged into the page or virtual page with whom the user is able to chat. The portlet displays the list of available people from a Sametime Instant Messaging server that is set up to work with WebSphere Portal. Because Who Is Here displays every user's name, the list can become cumbersome to manage and degrade performance on a page that has many visitors. Deploy Who Is Here in site only if Sametime Contact List does not fulfill the needs of users.

Portlet security

Sametime Contact List portlet

Users must have the appropriate access to the Sametime Instant Messaging server that has been set up for use with Collaborative Services. Collaborative Services logs the user into Sametime Instant Messaging, so a user does not have to enter a name and password.

By default, the LTPA token generated from WebSphere Portal is used to log the user into Sametime Instant Messaging. As portal administrator, you can change this behavior by modifying the useLTPAToken flag in the CSEnvironment.properties file. If the flag is set to false, Sametime tokens will be used. In this case, configure the Sametime Instant Messaging server enabled for the portal to generate and accept these tokens. The Sametime Instant Messaging server must have a security level enabled. For more information, see the topic on planning for collaborative servers and portlets.

Who Is Here portlet

Users must have the appropriate access to the Sametime Instant Messaging server that has been set up for use with Lotus Collaborative Services. Collaborative Services logs the user into Sametime Instant Messaging, so a user does not have to enter a name and password.

Set up the portlets

These portlets are installed automatically as part of the Domino and Extended Products Portlets.

Before you configure the portlets, make sure WebSphere Portal environment meets the following client and server requirements.

Client requirements

These portlets support browsers and devices capable of rendering HTML markup.

Item	Description
Markup level	HTML 4.01 Transitional
Java applet	1.1 applets
JavaScript	1.20
<iframe>	No
Style sheets	Portal styles only
Software	The Lotus Sametime portlets are compatible with the specific Web browser software releases listed in the WebSphere Portal detailed system requirements as long as those releases are also supported by the release of Lotus Sametime running on the server configured for the portlets. For information on supported browsers for Lotus Sametime, see the release notes for the relevant Sametime release.
Accessibility	Yes

Awareness in these portlets may be supported in a slightly different set of browsers and client platforms than listed in the table above, because the portlets depend upon the STLinks applet on the Lotus Sametime server. .

Server requirements

These portlets display information from a Lotus Domino back-end server that is configured to work with Collaborative Services in the portal and that is running Lotus Sametime.

The Lotus Sametime portlets display information from a Lotus Domino back-end server that is configured to work with Collaborative Services in the portal and that is running Lotus Sametime.

The portlets are compatible with the specific releases of Domino and Lotus Sametime server software listed in the WebSphere Portal detailed system requirements.

As portal administrator, you configure the Lotus Sametime back-end server after the installation of Collaborative Services, if the server is not already configured. See Integrate the Sametime server and portlets. You are also responsible for restarting the Lotus Sametime server and then the portal server if users report seeing the following error in the Sametime Contact List or Who Is Here portlet:

Currently Sametime is either not configured properly, or the Sametime server is unavailable

Deployment/Installation

These portlets are installed automatically as part of WebSphere Portal installation. These portlets are not supported as a remote WSRP service.

Configuration parameters

Sametime Contact List portlet

There are no configuration parameters for this portlet.

Who Is Here portlet

There are no configuration parameters for this portlet.

Parent

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