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Add a federated content element to an item

You add a federated content element to a site, site area or content item when you want the federated content to be used for a specific site, site area or content item.

You can only add an element to a content item if the manage elements button has been enabled in the authoring template used by the content item.

  1. Open or create a site area or content item.

  2. Click Manage Elements .

  3. Select Federated Content as the element type.

  4. Enter a name. Do not use double-byte and non-ASCII characters.

  5. Enter a display title to use as the title of the element displayed indexes and forms.

  6. Click Add. The federated content element is added to your form.

  7. Go to the federated content element you created:

    1. Click Select Reference to search for federated content:

      • Click Search Template to select an existing search template.

      • Click Full Text Search to search full-text search enabled federated entities.

      The current user's credentials must have appropriate access privileges in IBM Information Integrator for Content to perform searches, select references, and view content to successfully create a federated content component.

    2. Click Clear Reference to clear the currently selected federated content from this element.

    3. Click Lock Version to lock the current reference to the selected federated content. If you update the original federated content, the federated content element will not use the updated version, but will use the "locked" version.

    4. Click Unlock to unlock the current version of the federated content reference. If unlocked, each time the federated content component is rendered, the current version is retrieved form the federated data source.

    5. Click Refresh Version to update the locked federated content reference. The status of the federated content element is still considered as locked.

    6. Click Preview Content to preview the selected federated resource as it would appear when rendered in the rendered site based on the access rights of the current user.

    7. Click View Attributes to view the current attributes of the selected federated content.

    8. Enter the user-name and password required to access the federated content source.

  8. Save the item form.


Parent topic:

Use a federated content element