People awareness

People awareness makes people's names appear as hyperlinks that users can click to display information about the individual and gain access to actions for contacting and working with him or her. If the administrator has configured an IBMLotusSametimeserver to work with WebSphere Portal, users can see each other's online presence in their person links according to the status options they have set in their Lotus Sametime client (for example, whether the person is active, away, offline, or does not want to be disturbed). The person's online status appears only if Lotus Sametime is enabled.


Prerequisites


Configure the WebSphere Portal server to recognize Lotus Sametime
Configure trust for the Sametime Contact List portlet Users who are not in an LDAP do not have awareness and cannot see if other users are online. This can happen if you install the portal and then enable a Federated LDAP or Federated DB repository that does not contain that user. Also, users who sign up using the Self Care portlet do not have awareness.
User impersonation and people awareness: When a user who is enabled for impersonation impersonates other users, the people awareness feature is disabled for the entire session for which that user is authenticated.


Person card

Move the cursor over an active (underlined) name to see the Click for Person Card option. The Person card displays business card details such as the email address, job title, and so on. Available actions display below the business card section.

Click Profile to display full information about the person including (by default) business card information, contact information, current job, and background. The information in the business card section is distinct from the set of information you can configure to appear from a person link, so you may choose to display different information about people in each of these contexts.

You can also customize how much information is displayed. For example, you can show just the business card fields by default and let users choose whether to expand the information shown to include contact information, job, and background fields. You can also configure how long the Person card displays.

Additional actions that are available on the Person card depend on whether Domino and Extended Products, the Lotus Collaborative Services, or both, are configured to work with WebSphere Portal. These actions can include:

If you are using a screen reader, you can press Shift + Enter to see the Person card, and then press Tab to navigate through the available actions.


People awareness and the Person tag

People awareness in the form of online presence (names displayed as hyperlinks) is supported by Collaborative Services. In contexts where the Person card is available, the Person JSP tag provides contextual collaboration functionality that is related to a named person. The tag generates the HTML that renders both the actions to display on the Person card and the online presence state to display for that person, taking into account the Domino and Extended Products servers that are installed and enabled in the portal environment.

For more information on configuring a collaborative portal, see the topic on integrating Lotus Dominoand the Extended Product Portlets into WebSphere Portal. When configuring collaboration, pay special attention to the Collaborative Services environment properties file, CSEnvironment.properties, which supports people awareness.

For details on the implementation of the Person tag, and instructions on customizing the tag for WebSphere Portal applications that you develop, see the Collaborative Services API topic.


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Integrate with IBM Lotus Sametime


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Related tasks


Set display duration for the Person card
People Finder
Collaborative Services API

Sametime documentation

 


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