Configure global settings for social rendering

We can apply some global configuration settings to social rendering. These global settings apply to all social lists in the WebSphere Portal.

Typically, an administrator configures these settings.

To configure these settings, we configure the appropriate properties in the WP Connections Integration Service resource environment provider. We access this service in the WAS admin console under the resource environment providers.

These properties define the default settings if no other values are set for individual social lists in the corresponding social view definitions. Page editors with the appropriate access permissions can override some of these settings for individual social lists.

• Configure the IBM Connections server type
  Use social rendering with an on-premise IBM Connections server or with an IBM Connections server that runs in the Smart Cloud for Social Business. If we use the latter type of connections server, we need to adapt the configuration accordingly.

• Configure the maximum number of items loaded from IBM Connections
  We can define a value for the maximum number of social objects that we want the IBM Connections to return when data for a list of social objects is requested.

• Configure the tags transmission limit
  We can configure the lists of social objects that retrieve data from the IBM Connections to transmit tags to the Tag Cloud portlet. We can limit the number of tag names that are loaded from IBM Connections. We configure this limit in the WP Connections Integration Service resource environment provider.

• Configure globally how social object data is served
  Among other features, social objects have different links that enable users to download related data. For example, users can use links to download a file or the profile image of the author. We can globally configure how social object data is served to the users. To do so, we use a setting in the WP Connections Integration Service resource environment provider in the WAS admin console.

• Configure globally how social object links are resolved
  We can include one or many attributes of social objects in the design component that defines the visual design of the social list. Among other features, social objects have different resolvable links that enable users to open details views of the social objects or the community to which the social objects belong. To add these links to the social list, we can decide how we want the social objects and their home community to be resolved when users click the corresponding links. IBM WebSphere Portal can either resolve the links in the context of the portal itself, or redirect the user to the IBM Connections user interface. We can globally configure how these types of links of social objects are resolved for the users. To do so, we use a setting in the WP Connections Integration Service resource environment provider in the WAS admin console.

• Configure file type icon mappings
  Social rendering provides two types of list appearance components for result lists: simple and comprehensive. Both list appearances components show file type-specific icons when they render list entries that refer to individual files. In this case, the file type is determined based on the file extensions of the individual files. We can configure the set of file types to use in the WP Connections Integration Service resource environment provider. In the context of social lists, a file type is defined by a file type name and a list of file extensions. This list defines the mapping between individual files and the file types. In the social list appearance components, we can then access the file type name for a specific file using the Web Content Manager [AttributeResource attributeName="fileType"] tag. That tag is defined in the IBM Digital Data Connector (DDC) for WebSphere Portal profile. We can then use the file type name to render the appropriate image, for example, by assigning a corresponding CSS class.

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