Digital Data Connector profiles for social rendering

Start with v8.5, IBM WebSphere Portal includes a set of IBM Digital Data Connector (DDC) for WebSphere Portal profiles. Use them with the social rendering DDC plug-in identified by the extension ID ibm.portal.ddc.sr.

Use these profiles to define social lists and detail views for the following types of social data served by the IBM Connections server:

• Blogs, blog posts, and blog post comments, as served by the Blogs service:

  • Blogs (ibm.portal.sr.blogs)

  • Blog details (ibm.portal.sr.blogs.details)

  • Blog posts (ibm.portal.sr.blogs.posts)

  • Blog post comments (ibm.portal.sr.blogs.post.comments)

• Communities and community members as served by the Communities service:

  • Communities (ibm.portal.sr.communities)

  • Community members (ibm.portal.sr.communities.members)

• Forums, forum topics, forum topic replies as served by the Forums service:

  • Forums (ibm.portal.sr.forums)

  • Forum topics (ibm.portal.sr.forums.topics)

  • Forum topic replies (ibm.portal.sr.forums.replies)

  • Forum topic and reply attachments (ibm.portal.sr.forums.attachments)

• User profiles, user network connections as served by the Profiles service:

  • Profiles (ibm.portal.sr.profiles)

  • Profiles connections (ibm.portal.sr.profiles.connections)

• Wiki pages, as served by the Wikis service:

  • Wiki pages (ibm.portal.sr.wikis.pages)

  • Wiki page comments (ibm.portal.sr.wikis.page.comments)

  • Wiki page attachments (ibm.portal.sr.wikis.attachments)

• Search results as served by the IBM Connections search service:

  • Social objects (ibm.portal.sr.search)

• Tags that are served with the search results of the IBM Connections search service: (ibm.portal.sr.tags).

• Common profile: (ibm.portal.sr.common).

The profiles listed so far partly inherit attribute definitions from a set of profiles available for inheritance purposes only. We cannot see these profiles in the tag helper because they are used only by other profiles that inherit attribute definitions from them and thereby reuse them. Note that we might need to selectively overwrite parts of these profiles if the feed that you intend to consume does not serve data as expected by the profiles listed in the following:

• Common profile: (ibm.portal.sr.common)

• Modifier support profile: (ibm.portal.sr.modifiersupport)

• Tag support profile: (ibm.portal.sr.shared.tagsupport)

• OpenSearch support profile: (ibm.portal.sr.shared.opensearchsupport).

All list view definitions that WebSphere Portal provides use the Social Objects 1.0 profile. This profile works against the search services. for more information, read The social objects profile.

The Forum Topic Details view definition is uses the Forum Topics profile. For more information, read Forums, forum topics, and forum topic replies profiles.

The profiles define the attribute names that use in the [AttributeResource] tags when you generate the HTML markup for the bean lists. We can either manually add the AttributeResource tags to the design component of a social list, or use the Insert a Tag user interface of IBM Web Content Manager. Example: If a profile defines an attribute named title, we can write out the title value of the items in the list using the following tag: [AttributeResource attributeName="title"].

Note: When we integrate an IBM Connections server that runs in the Smart Cloud for Social Business, the following item attributes always return empty string values: authorObjectID, memberObjectID, and modifierObjectID.

The profiles that WebSphere Portal includes are listed in the following topics.

• Blog-related profiles
  These profiles provide access to IBM Connections blog-related feed data for blogs, blogs details, blog posts, and blog post comments.

• Communities and community members profiles
  These profiles provide access to IBM Connections community and community members feed data.

• Forum-related profiles
  These profiles provide access to IBM Connections forum-related feed data for forums, forum topics, and forum topic replies profiles.

• Profiles and profiles connections profiles
  These profiles provide access to IBM Connections profile related feed data.

• Social objects profile
  The social objects profile provides access to IBM Connections social objects feed data.

• Tags profile
  The tags profile provides access to the IBM Connections tags facet served by the connections search service.

• Wiki-related profiles
  These profiles provide access to wiki-related feed data for wiki pages, wiki page comments, and wiki page attachments.

• Common profile
  The common profile provides general aspects available in various feeds that are served by IBM Connections. Use the common profile when creating our own custom profiles.

• Modifier support profile
  The modifier support profile provides general modifier aspects. These modifier aspects are available in various feeds that are served by IBM Connections. We can reuse them when creating our own profiles.

• Tag support profile
  The tag support profile provides access to a list of tags associated with the social objects served by IBM Connections feed data.

• OpenSearch support profile
  The OpenSearch support profile provides access to information defined in the OpenSearch specification. The OpenSearch specification is commonly used in the Atom feed format.

Parent Customize the markup generation

Related concepts:

Web content tags

Related tasks:

Configure file type icon mappings
Integrate with IBM Connections
Configure globally how social object data is served
Configure globally how social object links are resolved

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