Create custom authoring templates for list definitions
Social rendering provides you a set of view definitions used to add social data to the portal pages. These list view definition content items are created from the social list definition IBM Web Content Manager authoring template. We can create our own custom list view definitions by creating new content items from this authoring template. To customize social rendering even further, we can also create our own authoring templates to extend the data set that makes up the list view definitions.
Your presentation components can then use the additional data provided by the custom authoring templates to control the rendering behavior for the lists. For example, we can add an option to have the page editor control whether the paging component for the social list is rendered or not. Social rendering can render content items created by such an extended authoring template in the same way as the default social lists do.
If we create a custom authoring template, make sure that it contains all the elements that are recognized by the ListRenderingContext rendering plug-in. This way you ensure the IBM Digital Data Connector (DDC) for WebSphere Portal framework can establish the appropriate query context when retrieving data from the remote IBM Connections server. To create a custom authoring template...
- Copy the Social List Definition authoring template.
- Keep all elements the template already contains.
- Add new elements as required.
- Optional: We can also change the default for the existing elements or modify the authoring template user interface for those elements.