Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows |
The People Finder portlet provides both quick search and advanced search options for locating people and information about people. Once found, a person is visible to other users as a person link that indicates online presence and displays a menu of instant messaging and other options.
Clicking a person link in People Finder displays the Profile, a page including the person's business card information followed by administrator-defined fields organized in sections, for example, Contact Information, Current Job, and Background. People Finder also provides a view of the person's place in the organizational context. In the Organization View, users can display the person's reporting structure: that is, the employees the person manages, if any, and the person's management chain.
The People Finder portlet appears in the People palette, so that users can find people in any context.
People Finder is supported as a remote WSRP service.
People Finder supports the Java Portlet Specification. For more information, see the section on developing portlets in this information center.
For information about working with the People Finder portlet, see the Help that is available from the portlet title bar. There is separate Help for the page you see when you select Configure from the drop-down menu on the portlet title bar.
Users interact with the People Finder portlet through the following features, which appear in one or more views of the portlet:
The People Finder portlet has been tested on and is compatible with all supported platforms, as listed in the IBM WebSphere Portal Express hardware and software requirements.
Using the portlet's configuration mode, administrators can specify the fields that they want to appear in the People Finder portlet. The fields that are available for selection when configuring the portlet are based on the Member Manager schema. The defined People Finder fields then become available for selection in the remaining portlet configuration tasks, by which the administrator or designer specifies the content and format of the People Finder views.
For People Finder, make sure your site meets the following client and server requirements.
This portlet supports browsers capable of rendering HTML markup. The following table provides detailed information.
Minimum requirements for HTML | |
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Markup level | HTML 4.01 Transitional |
Java applet | n/a |
JavaScript | n/a |
<iframe> | No |
Style sheets | Portal styles only |
Software | The People Finder portlet is compatible with specific Web browser software releases. For details, see the WebSphere Portal Express hardware and software requirements. |
Accessibility | Yes |
There are no special server requirements for the People Finder portlet.
This portlet is installed automatically as part of WebSphere Portal Express installation.
All fields of the People Finder portlet must have associated language strings defined in each language property file, PeopleFinderUI_language_code.properties. The field names are the names of the corresponding attributes in Member Manager.
For each People Finder field, three strings are required:
Example:
displayName = Name displayName_Long = Preferred Name displayName_Desc = Display name
The resource key for each field refers to the appropriate language property file, /nls/PeopleFinderUI_language_code.properties. Foreign language translations of People Finder fields must be stored in the appropriate language property file.
Language properties files are in the following location on the WebSphere Portal Express server (nnnnnnn represents a random number generated by the installation process when the lwppeoplefinder.jar file is installed):
portal_server_root/installedApps/peoplefinder/nnnnnnn.ear/lwppeoplefinder.war/web-inf/lib/lwp.peoplefinder.jar
The following configuration parameters are available in this portlet.
Do not modify any configuration parameter values for the People Finder portlet using
. You must use the portlet's Configure command to configure the People Finder. Use the interface only for viewing parameters when troubleshooting portlet configuration.Parameter | Value |
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ConfigHelpURI | The location and name of the JSP containing topics launched
from the Help command when configuring People Finder.
Default: /help/pfind_config.jsp |
SearchHelpURI | The location and name of the JSP containing topics launched
from the Help command in the Profile page of the People Finder. Topics in this JSP include Help for
person links, Quick Search, Quick Search Results, Advanced Search, and Advanced
Search Results.
Default: /help/pfind_view_search_for_people.jsp |
PersonRecordHelpURI | The location and name of the JSP containing topics launched
from the Help command in the Profile page and Organization view of the People Finder.
Default: /help/pfind_view_display_person_info.jsp |
Config_ResultSetLimit | Specifies the number of search results to be returned by
Quick Search and Advanced Search. The value specified for this parameter appears
in People Finder configuration mode, Configuration Basics, the Search
Results field.
Default: 40 |
Config_RecursionSetLimit | Specifies the maximum number of recursions performed by search and retrieval on the manager attribute for a given person. The limit of recursions performed on the manager attribute determines the number of managers above the found person that appear in the Organization View. |
Config_ActiveFields
Config_Active_Queries Config_VisualSets Config_Views Config_QuerySets Config_QueryViews Config_UpdateInfo Config_Complete | These parameters appear in the portlet after fields are
specified in configuration mode.
Do not modify these parameters. |