People Finder
The People Finder portlet provides both quick search and advanced search options for locating people and information about people. Once found, a person is visible to other users as a person link that indicates online presence and displays a menu of instant messaging and other options.
Hovering over the person link provides an option to display the person's business card (also known as person card). To view the person's profile, select Profile on the business card. For more information on the business card, see the section "Person card" in the People Awareness topic.
The People Finder portlet appears in the Portlet palette, which is visible in the Portal theme. To display the Portlet palette, click the small arrow below the Search box at the upper-right corner of the page.
You can add the People Finder portlet to a page in the same manner that you add any portlet, that is, by using the Manage Pages portlet. People Finder is then immediately available when the page is rendered. Using this method to access People Finder is required when using the default Page Builder theme, as the palette is not available with this theme.
People Finder is supported as a remote WSRP service.
People Finder supports the Java Portlet Specification. For more information, see the section on developing portlets in this information center.
For information about working with the People Finder portlet, see the Help that is available when you select Configure from the drop-down menu on the portlet title bar.
Use the People Finder portlet
Users interact with the People Finder portlet through the following features, which appear in one or more views of the portlet:
- Quick Search and Quick Search Results, including Business Card fields
- Advanced Search and Advanced Search Results
- Profile page, including Business Card fields
- Organization view, including Business Card fields
Set up People Finder
Using the portlet's configuration mode, administrators can specify which fields they want to display in the People Finder portlet. The fields that are available for selection when configuring the portlet are based on a mapping of attributes from the user repository to the Member Manager component of WebSphere Portal. People Finder requires a mapping for the uid and mail attributes. To learn more about attribute mapping or how to determine which attributes are defined to the portal, see the section "Adapting the attribute configuration" in this information center.For People Finder, make sure site meets the following client and server requirements.
Client requirements
This portlet supports browsers capable of rendering HTML markup.
Item Description Markup level HTML 4.01 Transitional Java applet n/a JavaScript n/a <iframe> No Style sheets Portal styles only Software The People Finder portlet is compatible with specific Web browser software releases. For details, see the WebSphere Portal hardware and software requirements. Accessibility Yes
Server requirements
There are no special server requirements for the People Finder portlet.
Deployment/Installation
This portlet is installed automatically as part of WebSphere Portal installation.
Configuration parameters
Config_ResultSetLimit is the only parameter that can be edited; to do so, use the portlet's Configure command. Do not modify any configuration parameter values for the People Finder portlet using Administration -> Portlets -> Portlet Management. Use the Administration -> Portlets -> Portlet Management interface only for viewing parameters when troubleshooting portlet configuration.
Parameter Value ConfigHelpURI The location and name of the JSP containing topics launched from the Help command when configuring People Finder.
Default: /help/pfind_config.jspSearchHelpURI The location and name of the JSP containing topics launched from the Help command in the Profile page of the People Finder. Topics in this JSP include Help for person links, Quick Search, Quick Search Results, Advanced Search, and Advanced Search Results.
Default: /help/pfind_view_search_for_people.jspPersonRecordHelpURI The location and name of the JSP containing topics launched from the Help command in the Profile page and Organization view of the People Finder.
Default: /help/pfind_view_display_person_info.jspConfig_PageIndexLimit Maximum number of search results to be returned per page by Quick Search and Advanced Search.
Default: 5Config_RecursionSetLimit Maximum number of recursions performed by search and retrieval on the manager attribute for a given person. The limit of recursions performed on the manager attribute determines the number of managers above the found person that appear in the Organization View. Config_ActiveFields
Config_Active_Queries
Config_VisualSets
Config_Views
Config_QuerySets
Config_QueryViews
Config_UpdateInfo
Config_CompleteThese parameters appear in the portlet after fields are specified in configuration mode. Do not modify these parameters.
Parent
Find users
People awareness
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