People Finder

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.
We can add the People Finder portlet to a page in the same manner that you add any portlet. People Finder is then immediately available when the page is rendered. If adding People Finder to a page, configure the profiling parameter of that page before adding the portlet.

Connect the WebDAV client, such as WebDrive or AnyClient, to http://host:port/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/themelist/.

Copy the profile_deferred.json file to a local disk.

Rename the file, for example people_finder_added.json.

Add the wp_liveobject_framework module containing the people finder capability to the profile, [portal.livetext.hcard , 8.0].

Upload this new profile using WebDAV.

Click Edit Mode on the selected page. The Page properties portlet appears on the Overvew tab.

Select the Page Properties section and click Edit.

Click Advanced.In the Theme Settings section, select the desired profile from the Profile drop-down.

Click Save.

The People Finder portlet appears when users click the Find a User link that appears at the end of any IBM WebSphere Portal page when the back-end server is J2EE.
People Finder is supported as a remote WSRP service.
People Finder supports the Java Portlet Specification. See the section on developing portlets in this information center.
For information about working with the People Finder portlet, see the Help available when we 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 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 "Adding more attributes to VMM."
For People Finder, make sure the 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.jsp
SearchHelpURI 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.jsp
PersonRecordHelpURI 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.jsp
Config_PageIndexLimit Maximum number of search results to be returned per page by Quick Search and Advanced Search.
Default: 5
Config_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 responsible for 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_Complete
These parameters appear in the portlet after fields are specified in configuration mode.
Do not modify these parameters.

Parent Find users
Related concepts:

Develop portlets
People awareness
Related tasks:

Add more attributes to VMM

Related information

System requirements

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

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.jsp
SearchHelpURI	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.jsp
PersonRecordHelpURI	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.jsp
Config_PageIndexLimit	Maximum number of search results to be returned per page by Quick Search and Advanced Search. Default: 5
Config_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 responsible for 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_Complete	These parameters appear in the portlet after fields are specified in configuration mode. Do not modify these parameters.