Integrate IBM Connections profile

We can enable the IBM Connections profile in WebSphere Portal so that users can view IBM Connections business card information and link to features such as communities, blogs, and activities.

Prerequisites

IBM Connections: Deploy Connections portlets

enable Show Email on the IBM Connections server to ensure that portal users can view profile information.

1. Search the IBM Connections LDAP directory for the user whose profile to enable in WebSphere Portal and then add that user to the portal LDAP directory.

2. Ensure that ibm-primaryEmail is mapped to the appropriate attribute in the LDAP and the email address in the IBM Connections LDAP matches the email address in the portal LDAP. For example, mail or email

3. Register the IBM Connections server. For stand-alone portal, complete the steps on the node. For a clustered environment, complete the steps on the WAS Network Deployment.

   1. Open the WAS console.

   2. Click Resources > URL > URL Providers.

   3. Select the Default URL Provider at the beginning of the hierarchy.

   4. Under Additional Properties, select URLs.

   5. Click New and then specify these settings under General Properties:

      Name

      CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD

      JNDI name

      JNDI_CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD

      Specification

      Card for IBM Connections version 2.5, or earlier:https://myConnectionsServer.domain.com/profiles/html/businessCard For example:

      https://w3.ibm.com/connections/profiles/html/businessCard

      Card for later versions of IBM Connections (post version 2.5): https://myConnectionsServer.domain.com:portno For example:

      https://w3.ibm.com/connections

      The url you type fetches the JavaScript file file/profiles/portalJS/portalBizCard.js.. We do not have to type in the entire url to the JavaScript file, only type in the Connections https address. For an HTTP server in front of the Connections environment, the port number can be omitted.

      Category

      CATEGORY_CONNECTIONS_PEOPLE_CARD

   6. Click Save to save the changes to the master configuration.

4. Restart the WebSphere_Portal server.

Results

After enabling the IBM Connections profile for a particular user, when you move the cursor over that person's active (underlined) name in WebSphere Portal, and then click Click for Person Card, we see the IBM Connections profile for that person. The profile is displayed in the business card section of the Person card, with links to more IBM Connections features. Click Profile to see the user's full IBM Connections profile. To return to the WebSphere Portal page, click Back in the browser.

If we integrate IBM Connections and then select a user who does not have a IBM Connections profile, portal displays the message profile does not exist.

Click Back to return to WebSphere Portal.

Parent Configure IBM Connections features

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