Preserving people awareness features in a customized portal

Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Preserving people awareness features in a customized portal

If your portal has customized themes and skins, additional Cascading Style Sheets can be accessed by your theme for proper operation of the People Finder portlet and Person tag.

For more information on customizing themes and skins, see Customizing the portal below.

To access the new CSS files, perform the following manual steps for each theme that supports an HTML markup:

Determine the location where CSS files are linked into the <HEAD> section of the page. For most themes, this will be a version of Head.jsp. The themes provided with WebSphere Portal Express have a version of this file located at: Windows:
```
was_profile_root\installedApps\
hostname\wps.ear\wps.war\themes\html\Head.jsp
```
Linux:
```
was_profile_root/installedApps/
hostname/wps.ear/wps.war/themes/html/Head.jsp
```
i5/OS:
```
portal_server_root_user/installedApps/
hostname/wps.ear/wps.war/themes/html/Head.jsp
```

Edit this file and search for content similar to the following content:

<link href='<wps:urlFindInTheme file="Styles.css"/>' 
    rel="styleSheet" type="text/css">
<link href='<wps:urlFindInTheme file="HelpStyles.css"/>' 
    rel="styleSheet" type="text/css">

After the content in step 2, add the following content and save your changes (type the content as a continuous line with no return character):
```
<link href='<wps:urlFindInTheme file="LWP_Styles.css"/>' 
    rel="styleSheet" type="text/css">
```

Touch the timestamp on the theme's Default.jsp file so it will be re-compiled by the JSP compiler. You can touch the timestamp by editing the file, adding a blank line, and saving it.

Restart the portal server.

Parent topic: About people awareness Related concepts
Customizing the portal Related tasks
Providing online awareness for a custom portlet Customizing person menu actions Related reference
Collaborative Services API People Finder

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