Integrate IBM Connections profile
We can enable the IBM Connections profile in WebSphere Portal so that users can view IBM Connections business card information and link to features such as communities, blogs, and activities.
- Prerequisites
- IBM Connections: Deploying the IBM Connections portlets
If we use IBM Connections Version 2.0.1 or later, enable Show Email on the IBM Connections server to ensure that portal users can view profile information.
- Search the IBM Connections LDAP directory for the user whose profile to enable in WebSphere Portal and then add that user to the portal LDAP directory.
- Ensure that ibm-primaryEmail is mapped to the appropriate attribute (for example, mail or email) in the LDAP, and that the email address in the IBM Connections LDAP matches the email address in the portal LDAP.
- Register the IBM Connections server. For stand-alone portal, complete the steps on the node. For a clustered environment, complete the steps on the WAS Network Deployment.
- Open the WAS admin console and select...
Resources | URL | URL Providers
- Select the Default URL Provider at the beginning of the hierarchy.
- Under Additional Properties, select URLs.
- Click New and then specify these settings under General Properties:
- Name
- CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD
- JNDI name
- JNDI_CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD
- Specification
- Card for IBM Connections version 2.5, or later:http://yourConnectionsServer.domain.com/profiles/html/businessCard
For example: https://w3.ibm.com/connections/profiles/portalJS/portalBizCard.js
- Card for earlier versions of IBM Connections: http://yourConnectionsServer.domain.com:portno
For example: https://w3.ibm.com/connections.domain.com:portno/profiles/portalJS/portalBizCard.js
- Category
- CATEGORY_CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD
- Click Save to save the changes to the master configuration.
- Restart the WebSphere_Portal server.
After enabling the IBM Connections profile for a particular user, when you move the cursor ovethat person's active (underlined) name in WebSphere Portal, and then click Click for Person Card, you see the IBM Connections profile for that person displayed in the business card section of the Person card, with links to additional IBM Connections features. Click Profile to see the user's full IBM Connections profile. To return to the WebSphere Portal page, click Back in the browser.
If you integrate IBM Connections and then select a user who does not have a IBM Connections profile, portal displays the message profile does not exists. Click Back to return to WebSphere Portal.