Set up the Collaboration Center

After you have confirmed installation of the Collaboration Center components, set them up to work with each other, the Domino and Extended Product servers that the portlets use, and with the portal.

If your portal has no Domino and Extended Products servers configured, see Getting started with collaboration under See also.

 

Checklist of tasks for setting up the Collaboration Center

Set up the Collaboration Center consists of the following tasks:

  • Install or confirming installation and configuration of all required Domino and Extended products, servers, and a user directory for collaborative portlets. See Planning for collaboration, and verify all tasks necessary to integration of the portal with Domino and Extended products that you will be using have been performed.
  • Determining whether the default server connections for the portlets on the Collaboration Center pages are working as desired, and if not, adjusting the configuration for back-end servers.
  • If necessary, removing portlets unused by your portal environment.
  • If necessary, using the People Finder portlet configuration mode to modify its default field specification to remove fields unused by your portal's LDAP directory.
  • Set up awareness and chat for the Domino Web Access portlet.
  • Performing tasks listed in Prerequisites sections for the Lotus My Team Workplaces and Lotus Web Conferencing portlets.

 

Default server and directory connections for portlets on pages

After installation of WebSphere Portal, the Collaboration Center portlets have the following initial appearance on pages. Follow the links on the names of the portlets to topics that explain subsequent configuration requirements for each portlet.

Portlet Default appearance
People Finder Initially appears already configured using information from the WebSphere Member Manager directory in the portal, unless there are fields unused by your LDAP directory, in which case error messages appear to identify the unused fields. Use the portlet's Configuration mode (wrench icon) to remove the unused fields.
Lotus My Team Workplaces Initially appears already configured using the Lotus Team Workplace server specified in the CSEnvironment.properties file of Collaborative Services. If 'Sorry' message appears, some additional server configuration is required.
Lotus Web Conferencing
Initially appears with embedded Help about configuring the portlet.
Lotus Instant Messaging Contact List Initially appears already configured using the Lotus Instant Messaging server specified in the CSEnvironment.properties file of Collaborative Services. If 'Sorry' message appears, some additional server configuration is required.
Who Is Here Initially appears already configured using the Lotus Instant Messaging server specified in the CSEnvironment.properties file of Collaborative Services.
Notes and Domino Initially appears with embedded Help about specifying a Domino server for the portlet.
Domino Web Access (iNotes) Initially appears with embedded Help about specifying a Domino server for the portlet.
Domino Document Manager Initially appears with embedded Help about specifying a Domino server for the portlet.

 

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