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Wiring the Lotus Connections portlets
After you add the Lotus Connections portlets to an IBM WebSphere Portal page, wire them together so they can exchange data.
You should already have added the Lotus Connection portlets to a Portal page before you proceed with wiring.
Follow these steps to add wires so the portlets can exchange data.
- From the Edit Layout page of the page containing the Activities portlet, click the Wires tab.
- Click the Define Global Targets button.
- Click the Process<URL> checkbox and click OK.
- Repeat the previous two steps to set Global Targets for the Blogs portlets.
- Click on the Edit Page Layout button for the page containing the Activities and Blogs Summary Portlets.
- From the Edit Layout page, click the Wires tab.
- Select the data pertaining to Activities and Blogs respectively from the drop down and click the plus sign (+) in the far right of the screen to add the selections similar to these:
Source Portlet Sending Target Page Switch Page Target Portlet Receiving Wire Type Activities Summary publish. {http://www.accelerator.lconn.ibm.com}selectedItemUrl Activities checked Activities process. {http://www.accelerator.lconn.ibm.com}selected ItemUrl Public Blogs Summary publish. {http://www.accelerator.lconn.ibm.com}selectedI temUrl Blogs checked Blogs process. {http://www.accelerator.lconn.ibm.com}selected ItemUrl Public
- Click Done.
Next, configure the portlets before making them available for your users.
IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets for WebSphere Portal