Member Manager and People Finder

Member Manager is the component of IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal that provides the common schema of attributes used by People Finder for people and their Profile pages.

Prerequisites

To understand how Member Manager works, we should have a thorough understanding of WebSphere Portal security and authentication concepts, including user registries and user repositories.

Member Manager data types

We can select the display format of a People Finder field if the data type of the corresponding attribute in Member Manager is string. Attributes with data type string can have one of the following display formats:

• String (default)

  The People Finder field appears as text.

• Person link

  The People Finder field appears as a person name showing online presence and a person menu of actions.

• Email address

  The People Finder field appears as a mailto: link that launches an email message to the person.

• Web page link

  The People Finder field appears as a link to a web page

People Finder fields that correspond to Member Manager attributes that have data types other than string appear as fixed text. People Finder supports the following data types, but we cannot choose the display format for fields that correspond to attributes with these data types.

• Integer, Long, Double

  Display format is always Numeric.

  Examples:

  ibm-firstDayOfWeek

  ibm-firstWorkDayOfWeek

• MemberIdentifier

  Display format is always Member Link.

  Examples:

  manager (Employee's manager. Required to build Organization view.)

  secretary (Name of the person's secretary or assistant)

  seeAlso (Person who can be contacted when this person is not available)

• ByteArray

  Display format is always Image.

  Example: jpegPhoto (A jpeg format photograph)

• Object

  Display format is always Object.

Other data types such as Timestamp are not supported by People Finder.

Parent People Finder

Related concepts:

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