Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
About people awareness
IBM WebSphere Portal Express includes people awareness features, so that people's names can appear as hyperlinks that allow users to contact people with whom they might want to work.
Wherever person links appear, users can click the link to display a menu of actions for collaborating (contacting and working) with the person named by the link.
If you have configured an IBM Lotus Sametime server to work with WebSphere Portal Express, person links indicate person state...
- active
- away
- offline
- Do Not Disturb
Person menu
When users click the name of (or the icon for) a person, a menu appears that provides actions linking them to other users.
The actions that are visible on the person menu depend on whether...
- Domino and Extended Products
- Lotus Collaborative Services
...are configured to work with WebSphere Portal Express.
Actions may also include:
- Show Person Record
Appears only if the People Finder portlet is on the current page. This action displays the person's record in the organization directory, 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.
- Send E-mail...
Opens a new message in the user's preferred e-mail client as specified in browser and operating system.
- Chat...
Appears only if Lotus Sametime is enabled. Action is not available if the person is offline or has set status to...
Do not disturb me
- Show in Organization View
Appears in the People Finder portlet if a portal administrator has selected...
Include Organization View
...when configuring the portlet. This action opens the person's organizational context. The Organization View shows how the person fits into the organizational hierarchy.
- Add to Sametime List...
Appears only if Lotus Sametime is enabled. Action displays a window where a user can add the person to the contact list, as a member of a new or existing personal group.
Online presence
If you have set up a Lotus Sametime server to work with WebSphere Portal Express, 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:
- I am active.
- I am away or not using the computer now.
- Do not disturb me.
When someone is offline, his or her status indicator in the person link indicates the Offline state.
People awareness and the Person tag
People awareness in the form of online presence (names displayed as hyperlinks) is supported by Collaborative Services.
In some contexts, the Person menu is available. In WebSphere Portal Express releases 6.0, 6.0.0.1, and 6.0.1, the Person menu is provided by the Person JSP tag.
In releases 6.0.1.1 and later, the Person menu actions are controlled by the Live Object Framework. The Person tag provides contextual collaboration functionality related to a named person. It generates the HTML that renders both the specific set of actions to display on the Person menu 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.
There are alternate methods of configuring awareness and chat features for some collaborative portlets, such as Inline QuickPlace.
Related tasks
Integrating Lotus Domino and the Extended Products and Portlets into WebSphere Portal ExpressCollaborative Services environment properties
CSEnvironment.properties
Preserving people awareness features in a customized portal
Providing online awareness for a custom portlet
Customizing person menu actions
Collaborating in Document Manager
Related reference
Collaborative Services APIPeople Finder
Directory Search