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Organize the custom IBM Connections queries

For the different query URLs to use, we can create multiple dynamic or static IBM Connections query URL components. For convenient use of these query URL components, we can create a generic authoring template for all list definitions to build from those queries.

When we work with IBM Digital Data Connector (DDC) for WebSphere Portal, the generic authoring template must comprise short text elements for identifying the following elements:

  • The DDC plug-in ID and the profile name. For example, they can be elements named provider and profile.

  • Component references to the query URL HTML component and the appearance component. For example, they can be elements named sourceref and design.

We can now create individual list definition content items from this authoring template for your IBM Connections queries. To set up the query-specific list-rendering context and to render the query-specific appearance component, use a generic presentation template for all those queries as follows: 

[Plugin:ListRenderingContext compute="always"     
 extension-id="[Element context='current' type='content' key='provider']"     
 profile="[Element context='current' type='content' key='profile']"     
 attribute="source=[Element context='current' type='content' key='sourceref']"]
   [Element context="current" type="content" key="design" compute="always"]
For example, a list definition content item for the query that was defined in Dynamic IBM Connections source URL Construction specifies the following settings:

  • It sets the provider field to ibm.portal.ddc.sr.

  • It sets the profile field to ibm.portal.sr.communities.members.

  • The sourceref component reference points to the query HTML component. For a description of that component, read Dynamic IBM Connections source URL construction.

  • The design component reference points to an appearance component that generates the list of community member markup. The markup is generated based on the attributes defined in the ibm.portal.sr.communities.members list-rendering profile.


Parent Extending social lists using the digital data connector

Related reference:

Dynamic IBM Connections source URL construction