New for developers in Portal v8.5
New for front-end developers
- Configure outbound HTTP connections
- In Portal V8.0 and earlier, outbound HTTP connections, accessed by the Ajax Proxy service, were configured using...
web_module/WEB-INF/proxy-config.xml
Starting with Portal v8.5, outbound HTTP connections are configured using datastore-based portal configuration.
- Theme optimization analyzer
- The theme optimization analyzer creates a validation report that analyzes the theme for known issues and reports the number of errors, warnings, and informational messages. It also includes a detailed explanation about how to fix the errors that occur.
- Simple modules
- Simple modules for the resource aggregator framework are provided in the WebDAV folder.
- Collaborating with Worklight
- We can expand the capabilities available to the application when creating a hybrid application that adds native device functions to the portal with Worklight. When the hybrid application runs with the WebSphere Portal pages rendered in a native application, WebSphere Portal loads the appropriate native resources for the device. These resources are loaded automatically through modules provided in WebSphere Portal.
New for portlet and application developers
- Attribute Based Security for WCM content
Attribute based security for WCM content is a new access filter in the product filter chain. We can extend the access control permission checks for WCM content beyond the user or group-based decisions. Define our own criteria. The criteria might involve categories, keywords, textComponents, htmlComponents, or shortTextComponents for an item. .
- Dojo is no longer required for tagging and rating
- The tag and rating widgets of earlier portal versions required Dojo to be interactive. The new inline tag and rating widgets do not require Dojo to be interactive.
- Use the Configuration Wizard to deploy PAA files
- We can now install and deploy Portal Application Archive (PAA) files with the Configuration Wizard. Start the wizard and then go to...
Add On New Capability | Install Add-ons
- Social Rendering List templates
- WebSphere Portal page editors can use social rendering to feature social data hosted on a remote IBM Connections server in the context of portal pages.
- IBM UX Screen Flow Manager
- The new UX Screen Flow Manager enables building wizard-like applications that guide users through sequences of screens. Flows can be modeled declaratively, interconnecting multiple portlets.
New for web content developers
- Custom HTML editor integration
- Custom HTML fields are used to integrate third-party editors into the web content authoring interface. Use custom HTML editors in all HTML fields of the web content authoring interface, or in single HTML elements defined in an authoring template.
- Default inplace editing mode
- Supported fields can be pre-configured to either use inplace editing mode, embedded editing mode, or dialog editing mode. The default inplace editing mode can be overridden in EditableElement tags using the mode parameter, or in the content template for content items.
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