Integrate click-to-action targets with the person menu

Target actions for live text based click-to-action can also integrate with the person menus that are generated for hCard microformats found in the page markup.

Target actions to display in a person menu need to declare the special type name as follows:

http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/websphere/portal/v6.1/livetext#hcard

Unlike normal click-to-action sources, the person data that is available in the person menu is complex structured information. Therefore the value of the variable window.ibm.portal.c2a.event.value is not a string, but a JavaScript object with multiple nested properties that represent available information about the person. Refer to the person tag documentation about available attributes. The value passed in a target input field annotated with c2a:action-param is a string representation of this object in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.

Target actions to receive only individual fields of the person record, we can indicate this by appending the field selector to the type name.

For example, a target action that is declared with the following type name will receive only the email.internet nested property of the person record.

http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/websphere/portal/v6.1/livetext#hcard.email.internet

If the specified field is not available for a given source, then the target action is not displayed in the person menu.

Parent: Live text for click-to-action
Related:
Live text formats
Relation to cooperative portlet wiring
Comparison of the new features with click-to-action in IBM portlets