Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows
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Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows |
You can use reference information on the Lotus Sametime portlets when you modify their parameters in Administration. This portlets reference also includes information on new features in the current release, client and server requirements, and deployment/installation.
The Lotus Sametime portlets are:An example of the Sametime Contact List portlet appears on the page, and examples of the Lotus Web Conferencing and Who Is Here portlets appear on the page. For information about tasks users can perform with the Lotus Sametime portlets, see the Help that is available from each portlet's title bar.
For those portlets with personalization settings, if you are an administrator, you see the command Edit Shared Settings instead of Personalize. This command works the same as Personalize except that your changes apply to all users of the instance of the portlet whose settings you are editing, up until the time a user decides to personalize the portlet. Use caution when editing shared settings. For more information, see the topic on configuration levels for portlets..
As with the other Domino and Extended Products Portlets, person links are available in the Lotus Sametime portlets.
Tip: Consider adding the Sametime Contact List portlet to the People palette, making it a central location for awareness and collaboration in your site.
Sametime Contact List portlet
The Sametime Contact List (formerly Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List) portlet displays an inline list of people that the user has compiled and with whom the user wants to chat online or include in online meetings. The portlet displays the user's contact list from a Sametime Instant Messaging server that is set up to work with the portal.
Do not add more than one instance of the portlet to a page of your site.
Lotus Web Conferencing portlet
The Lotus Web Conferencing portlet lets users find, attend, and schedule e-meetings as well as view meeting details.
From the basic list of meetings (My Meetings), the user can search for listed and unlisted meetings, manage meeting details, attend a meeting, schedule a meeting, and interact with people in the meeting. Users with Edit permission to this portlet can personalize their preferences.
Who Is Here portlet
The Who Is Here portlet displays an inline list of people currently logged into the page or virtual page with whom the user is able to chat. The portlet displays the list of available people from a Sametime Instant Messaging server that is set up to work with WebSphere Portal Express.Note: Because Who Is Here displays every user's name, the list can become cumbersome to manage and degrade performance on a page that has many visitors. Deploy Who Is Here in your site only if Sametime Contact List does not fulfill the needs of your users.
Sametime Contact List portlet
The Sametime Contact List portlet now allows the user to personalize settings.
Sametime Contact List portlet
Users must have the appropriate access to the Sametime Instant Messaging server that has been set up for use with Collaborative Services. Collaborative Services logs the user into Sametime Instant Messaging, so a user does not have to enter a name and password.
By default, the LTPA token generated from WebSphere Portal Express is used to log the user into Sametime Instant Messaging. As portal administrator, you can change this behavior by modifying the useLTPAToken flag in the CSEnvironment.properties file. If the flag is set to false, Sametime tokens will be used. In this case, configure the Sametime Instant Messaging server enabled for the portal to generate and accept these tokens.
Note: The Sametime Instant Messaging server must have a security level enabled. For more information, see the topic on planning for collaborative servers and portlets. .Who Is Here portlet
Users must have the appropriate access to the Sametime Instant Messaging server that has been set up for use with Lotus® Collaborative Services. Collaborative Services logs the user into Sametime Instant Messaging, so a user does not have to enter a name and password.
These portlets have been tested on and are compatible with all supported WebSphere Portal Express platforms, as listed in the WebSphere Portal Express detailed system requirements.
These portlets are installed automatically as part of the Domino and Extended Products Portlets.
Before you configure the portlets, make sure your WebSphere Portal Express environment meets the following client and server requirements.
These portlets support browsers and devices capable of rendering HTML markup. The following table provides detailed information.
| Minimum requirements for HTML | |
|---|---|
| Markup level | HTML 4.01 Transitional |
| Java applet | 1.1 applets |
| JavaScript | 1.20 |
| <iframe> | No |
| Style sheets | Portal styles only |
| Software | The Lotus Sametime portlets are compatible with the specific Web browser software releases listed in the WebSphere Portal Express detailed system requirements as long as those releases are also supported by the release of Lotus Sametime running on the server configured for the portlets. For information on supported browsers for Lotus Sametime, see the release notes for the relevant Sametime release. |
| Accessibility | Yes |
These portlets display information from a Lotus Domino back-end server that is configured to work with Collaborative Services in the portal and that is running Lotus Sametime.
The Lotus Sametime portlets display information from a Lotus Domino back-end server that is configured to work with Collaborative Services in the portal and that is running Lotus Sametime.
The portlets are compatible with the specific releases of Domino and Lotus Sametime server software listed in the WebSphere Portal Express detailed system requirements.
As portal administrator, you configure the Lotus Sametime back-end server after the installation of Collaborative Services, if the server is not already configured. See Integrating the Sametime server and portlets.
Note: You are also responsible for restarting the Lotus Sametime server and then the portal server if users report seeing the following error in the Sametime Contact List or Who Is Here portlet:Currently Sametime is either not configured properly,
or the Sametime server is unavailable
These portlets are installed automatically as part of WebSphere Portal Express installation.
Note: These portlets are not supported as a remote WSRP service.
Lotus Web Conferencing portlet
Before users can work with the Lotus Web Conferencing portlet, all the tasks in the following checklist must be completed. These tasks are part of the ordinary configuration of the Sametime Web Conferencing server, so you may need only to confirm that the tasks have been performed in your portal.
| Prerequisite tasks for the Lotus Web Conferencing portlet | See details in the following topics |
|---|---|
| Install and configure Sametime Web Conferencing on the Lotus Domino server. | See Lotus Sametime server installation reference and Checklist of tasks: IBM Lotus Sametime server and portlets. |
| Configure the Sametime Web Conferencing server to work with WebSphere Portal Express. | See Configuring the WebSphere Portal Express server to recognize Lotus Sametime. |
Add an administrator group
to the ACL of the Sametime Web Conferencing Configuration
database
| See the Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Administrator's Guide, Using the Sametime Administration Tool, Adding a new Sametime administrator. |
Enable the PurgeMeeting agent
on the Sametime Web Conferencing server to
improve performance. The Sametime Meeting Center on a Sametime Web Conferencing server
includes a PurgeMeeting agent. Enable this agent to automatically delete Meeting
Details documents when the documents reach a certain age. The PurgeMeeting
agent deletes the documents of finished meetings from the database on a scheduled
interval, improving portlet performance. The interval is based on the following NOTES.INI setting: STPurgeMeetingPastDays={number of days, or 0 to disable}
| See the Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Administrator's Guide, Maintaining the Sametime Meeting Center |
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The default configuration parameters for the Lotus Web Conferencing portlet include five critical settings that enable a connection to a Sametime Web Conferencing server. Specify values for the following parameters:
| See the Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Administrator's Guide. |
Sametime Contact List portlet
There are no configuration parameters for this portlet.
Lotus Web Conferencing portlet
The following configuration parameters are available in this portlet.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| SametimeServer1 | The fully-qualified Internet
name of the Sametime Web Conferencing server.
Default: yourServer.yourDomain.com |
| SametimeUserName1 | The name of the user or group
with administrative access to the SametimeServer1. This user must satisfy
the following conditions:
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| SametimePassword1 | The password associated with
SametimeUserName1 for administrative access to SametimeServer1.
Default: password |
| SametimePort1 | The port ID for SametimeServer1.
Optional as long as the port being used by the server is 80. If the Sametime Web Conferencing server
is using a port other than 80, this parameter is required and must indicate
the correct port ID for the Sametime Web Conferencing server.
Default: 80 |
| SametimeUseSSL1 | Indicates whether the portlet requires Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Optional.Default: noRestriction: Use only English text values yes or no . |
| HelpResultURI | The location and name of
the JSP opened from the Help command in the Search and Search Results view.
Default: /help/wcSearchHelp.jsp |
| HelpDetailURI | The location and name of
the JSP opened from the Help command in the Meeting Details view.
Default: /help/wcDetailHelp.jsp |
| HelpNewMeetingURI | The location and name of
the JSP opened from the Help command in the Schedule a New Meeting view.
Default: help/wcNewMeetingHelp.jsp |
| HelpEditURI | The location and name of
the JSP opened from the Help command in Edit mode.
Default: /help/wcEditHelp.jsp |
| Record | Indicates whether the option
to record a meeting is available for selection.
Default: yes Restriction: Use only English text values yes or no. |
| MeetingsPerPage | Indicates the number of meetings
to show on a page of the portlet.
Default: 15 |
| ScheduleMeeting | Indicates whether users can
schedule new meetings from within the portlet. When this parameter is set
to Yes, the portlet includes a New Meeting command. Users who schedule a new
meeting from within the portlet have most of the features for editing the
details of the new meeting available to them. With the New Meeting command,
the portlet provides a link to the Web Conferencing (Sametime) Meeting Center,
where users can work with advanced scheduling options that are not available
in the portlet.
Default: yes Restriction: Use only English text values yes or no. |
| SendWebPage
Polling Whiteboard ScreenShare MeetingRoomChat ComputerAudio ComputerVideo | Each of these seven parameters
indicates whether the tool of the same name as the parameter is shown in the Schedule
a New Meeting view.
Default: yes Restriction: Use only English text values yes or no . |
Who Is Here portlet
There are no configuration parameters for this portlet.
Parent topic: Integrating the Lotus Sametime server and portlets Related information
WebSphere Portal detailed system requirements
