Use the view definitions provided with social rendering on our portal pages

The social rendering feature provides a set of predefined view definitions we can add to the pages of the WebSphere Portal. We can use the page editor to define which types of social objects are listed, how they are filtered, sorted, and presented.

• Social rendering view definitions are represented by WCM content items. Therefore, we can drag and drop these view definitions only to managed pages or pages that have an explicitly defined web content association to a site area in WCM.

• The list view definitions provided with social rendering use the IBM Connections search service remote API to retrieve the social objects displayed in the list. This action has the following consequences:
  • Only information available in the IBM Connections search feed can be displayed in the social lists.
  • Updates to social objects in IBM Connections do not appear in the social lists provided with social rendering until the index of the IBM Connections search service was updated.

Add a social rendering view definition to a portal page

1. Select the Edit Mode of the page.

2. Go to...
   Create | Content | Social Content site area

   ...and select a view definition.

   • List of Community Files
   • List of Community Content
   • List of Community Blog Posts
   • List of Community Forum Topics
   • List of Community Events
   • List of Files
   • List of Social Content
   • List of Blog Posts
   • List of Forum Topics
   • List of Communities
   • List of People
   • Forum Topic Details.

3. Place it on the page by drag-and-drop, or by clicking the plus sign icon "Add this content to the page"

4. Save the changes.

Remaining in page edit mode, move the mouse pointer to the social list portlet.

The component action menu opens.

Select the Open Edit Form menu item.

The Web Content Manager inline edit dialog opens up and shows the authoring experience for the view definition.

Modify the social list definition to serve the information appropriate to the current page.

Parent Work with lists of social objects

Related concepts:
Web content associations
Customize social list definitions using inline editing
Administer Search