IBM Connections
Integrate IBM Connections into the site using community pages and IBM Connections Portlets.
Connection portlets are not installed with the portal. We can download them from the IBM Portal Business Solutions Catalog. There are portlets for activities, blogs, blog summary, bookmarks, bookmarks summary, profiles, profiles summary, wikis, forums, forums summary, community overview, and tags.
Community pages
Portlets on community pages are automatically scoped to the community membership, and display content from the community in the portlets. For example, if the community contains a forum, portal site visitors can view and interact with the forum content from the portal site. We can automatically create new communities for pages during the page template instantiation.
Search integration
Visitors can search for a term and see results from the portal site and IBM Connections. Each IBM Connections component has a unique seedlist provider. To configure the portal search to include IBM Connections content, configure a content source for each seedlist.
Tag integration
We can configure the portal tag cloud to include tags from IBM Connections. We can also add the IBM Connections Tags Portlet to a page. Then we can wire it to other IBM Connections portlets. Then site visitors can use tags to find community content faster in blogs, wikis, and more.
Profiles integration
We configure the portal site to show IBM Connections business card information. Names associated with IBM Connections profiles display as active links. Site visitors click the name to see the business card. From the business card visitors can link to communities, blogs, and more for the selected user.
Files integration
Content authors can create links to files stored on IBM Connections. From the rich text editor, in WCM, the author can browse Files. Authors can also use WCM markup generation to render the contents of IBM Connections folders. Integration with IBM Connections Files is based on the generic Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS).
Parent Social businessRelated concepts:
New for administrators in V8.5
Roadmap: Integrate with IBM Connections
IBM WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog
IBM Connections Portlets for WebSphere Portal
How the Tags portlet interacts with the other IBM Connections portlets