The social rendering Digital Data Connector plug-in
To implement the IBM Connections data integration, the social rendering feature in IBM WebSphere Portal v8.5 uses a custom IBM Digital Data Connector (DDC) for WebSphere Portal plug-in.
You identify this social rendering DDC plug-in using the DDC plug-in extension ID ibm.portal.ddc.sr.
The social rendering DDC plug-in delegates the data loading and XML transformation to the generic XML DDC plug-in. As a result, we can control this data transformation by XPath based list-rendering profiles. WebSphere Portal v8.5 includes a set of such profiles for a subset of the available IBM Connections services. For more detailed information, read Digital Data Connector profiles for social rendering. Use these profiles as is, or extend them by creating custom extensions of the profiles, or create our own list-rendering profiles. The social rendering DDC plug-in adds various computed attributes to the profiles.
The social rendering DDC plug-in supports the source list-rendering context attribute. Use this attribute to directly specify the source URL that serves the IBM Connections XML data. To dynamically construct those source URLs, use the [Plugin:ConnectionsContext] and [Plugin:URLParam] tags. For more detailed information, read Dynamic IBM Connections source URL construction.
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Dynamic IBM Connections source URL construction
Digital Data Connector profiles for social rendering