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This post explains how to login directly to Admin Console for WebSphere Portal 6.x and Integrated Solutions Console for WebSphere Portal 7.x

This IBM Technote article explain these information and you can look for either serverindex.xml (or) as simple as you can look at the Portal SystemOut.log and search for the below entry

1. TCP Channel TCP_1 is listening on host * (IPv4) port

Note: TCP_1 is called as WCInboundAdmin

For WebSphere Portal 6.x - [URL]:10027/admin
For WebSphere Portal 7.x - [URL]:10042/admin

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Android Application Development

This sesction provides details information about How to start the Android Application Development with RAD/Eclipse environment.

1. Stat up Tutorial on Application Development
- Basic Tutorial

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Information on various integraton with WebSphere Portal

Agenda: Please go thorugh the following IBM Links to learn more about WebSphere portal integration with other IBM products.

Integrating IBM Lotus Connections and IBM WebSphere Portal
Learn how to integrate IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Connections to enhance the extensibility of Lotus Connections and the flexibility of WebSphere Portal.

Using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory to integrate IBM Lotus Connections with IBM WebSphere Portal
In this article, you learn how the REST Service Call builder in IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory can be used to access, display, and manipulate the data from the five IBM Lotus® Connections services.

Integrating IBM Lotus Quickr with IBM WebSphere Portal using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Learn how to integrate IBM® Lotus® Quickr Web 2.0 services with IBM WebSphere® Portal applications, creating list and detail portlets that allow you not only to browse all the contents of a Lotus Quickr Library but also to allow access to the contents of a document.

Options for rapid integration of Web applications into WebSphere Portal
This developerWorks article describes a variety of techniques that you can use to quickly integrate Web applications into your WebSphere Portal.

Using IBM WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services V5
This IBM Redbook helps you to tailor and configure the new features that are included with HATS V5. Examples and usage scenarios demonstrate how to implement many of the new features and functions, along with those that were present in previous releases of HATS.

HATS provides tools to quickly and easily extend your legacy green-screen applications to the Web. HATS makes your 3270 and 5250 applications available as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) through Web browsers.
It also converts your host screens to a Web look and feel. Using HATS, you can improve the workflow and navigation of your host applications without any access or modification to source code.

OmniFind Enterprise Edition
OmniFind provides enhanced search and higher scalability options for WebSphere Portal.

How to access page parameters from a Portal Theme

Agenda : How to access the custom page parameters from IBM Theme.

When editing a portal page, you can add custom page parameters (metadata) to the page. The value of a custom page parameter can then be retrieved from your WPS theme code. This explains how.

First, you must add a custom parameter to one or more portal pages. This is done in the Edit Page view > Advanced options > I want to set parameters.

You can then access the named parameters in your theme code.

Take the following parameter name for example:

Name     : com.acme.page.hidden

Value     :true

Following is an example where this technique is used to determine whether or not a tab for a portal page should be rendered in the UI. This is taken from a theme file called topNav.jspf.

////////////////////////////////////////////////
<portal-navigation:navigationLoop>
     <%

    boolean isPageHidden = false;

    ContentNodeType nodeType = wpsNavNode.getContentNode().getContentNodeType();

    if (wpsNavNode instanceof com.ibm.portal.MetaDataProvider) {
            com.ibm.portal.MetaData iMetaData = ((com.ibm.portal.MetaDataProvider) wpsNavNode).getMetaData();
            Object hiddenValue = iMetaData.getValue("com.acme.page.hidden");
            if (hiddenValue != null && hiddenValue.toString().equalsIgnoreCase("true") ){
                    isPageHidden = true;
            }
    }
    if (!isPageHidden) {
     %>

        ... OTHER JSP CODE GOES HERE...

    <% } // end isPageHidden %>
</portal-navigation:navigationLoop>

//////////////////////////////////

Note: To access the custom unique name for the page, try this using the same wpsNavNode object
that is shown as available within the portal-navigation loop above:

<%= wpsNavNode.getContentNode().getObjectID().getUniqueName() %>

Steps to enable new WCM features in WCM 7

Agenda : This article is to explain the steps required to enable new features of IBM WCM 7.
You may need to update your old web content to take advantage of the new Web Content Management features.

Web content configuration changes

You no longer use the WCMConfigService.properties file to update configuration settings for Web Content Management. Instead, you now use the WCM WCMConfigService service to update configuration settings using the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server administration console.

Web content tag format changes

Web content management tags now use square brackets. This means web content tags can now be entered directly into rich text fields.

For example, in previous versions the component tag was written as:

<component name="componentname" />

The component tag now uses square brackets:

 [component name="componentname" ]

Note:

All web content tags are converted to the new format during migration.
After migration, if a user enters a web content tag using the old format, it will be converted to the new format when saved.

New web content property tag

The IDCmpnt, HistoryCmpnt, ProfileCmpnt, WorkflowCmpnt, and SecurityCmpnt tags have been deprecated. All deprecated tag features have been retained and consolidated into a new property tag.

[Property field=" " context=" " type=" " name=" " key=" " format=" "

link=" " separator=" " htmlencode=" " awareness=" " ifEmpty=" " include=" "

restrict=" " resolve=" " start=" " end=" " ]

Note:

These tags are converted to the new property tag during migration.
After migration, if a user enters one of the deprecated tags, it will be converted to the new property tag when saved.

Autofill parameter in web content tags

The behavior of the autofill parameter used in some web content tags has been updated so that if used in an item where autofill is not applicable, the tag will instead use the context of the current item.

If you do not want this behavior to be used, you can set the renderAutoFillTagsAsCurrent to "false" in the WCM WCMConfigService service using the IBM WebSphere Application Server administration console.

Federated content component and element

         The federated content component and element have been deprecated in version 7.0. You can instead use features such as the new ECM dialog, the Web Content Integrator or the federated document feature of Personalization to reference federated content in your website.

          Federated content components and elements are migrated from previous versions and will be visible in the authoring portlet and can still be rendered in web pages, but you cannot create new federated content components or elements unless you enable this functionality.

          You can enable federated content components and elements in your 7.0 system to maintain legacy systems by adding the following property in the WCM WCMConfigService service using the IBM WebSphere Application Server administration console:

federatedcontent.enabled=true

Local rendering portlet

The local rendering portlet has been deprecated and replaced with the new JSR 286 web content viewer portlet. If required, you can enable the IBM API local rendering portlet by running the deploy-wcm-legacy-localrender-portlet task from the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine directory of your new system.

Windows

ConfigEngine.bat deploy-wcm-legacy-localrender-portlet -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DWasUserid=username -DWasPassword=password

Linux

./ConfigEngine.sh deploy-wcm-legacy-localrender-portlet -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DWasUserid=username -DWasPassword=password

iSeries

ConfigEngine.sh deploy-wcm-legacy-localrender-portlet -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DWasUserid=username -DWasPassword=password

To add the legacy local rendering portlet to a page:

Go to the Edit Layout view of a page and click Add portlets.
Search for "Web Content Viewer".
Select the portlet and click OK.

Inserting links to remote content

           Web Content Management enables you to include links to remote content in other repositories, such as IBM Lotus® Quickr, IBM DB2 Content Manager, or IBM FileNet Content Manager through the use of rich text fields.

            The rich text editors in version 6.1.5 (standard and extended rich text editor) and in version 7.0 (default and advanced rich text editor) support this function with the Insert Link to Remote Content button, and, in the case of the extended or the advanced rich text editor, with an additional Insert Link to Remote Content menu item.

            In version 7.0 the availability of the button and the menu item depend on capabilities of the portal theme. In particular, the theme applied to a page containing the authoring portlet must support Dojo 1.4.x and must include the theme.capability.dojo property in its metadata.properties file (for example, theme.capability.dojo=1.4.3).

            To enable the Insert Link to Remote Content function after migration, ensure that the Page Builder theme is available on the migrated portal. In addition, you must apply the Page Builder theme to any portal page that contains the authoring portlet.

Note: The web content page containing the reserved authoring portlet for inline editing is hidden from the portal navigation. You can locate the portlet using the Manage Pages portlet by searching for the page with the unique name com.ibm.wps.hiddenpage.wcm.Authoring_Portlet. For inline editing, in addition to setting the Page Builder theme for that hidden authoring page, you must also apply the Page Builder - No Skin skin to the reserved authoring portlet instance on that page.

WCM Tag List and it's detailed description

A wiki version of the information found here in the IBM Infocenter

Element's are fields (and there corresponding values) that you created when you defined an authoring template or added an element to a site or site area. The Element tag is reference an element within a presentation template or element design.

<Element type=" " context=" " name=" " key=" " format=" " link=" " separator=" " htmlencode=" " awareness=" " start=" " end=" " />

<Element	Opens the tag.
type=" "	This determines where the element is being referenced from. Either "content", "sitearea" or "site".
context=" "	This determines which content item or site area is being referenced. Selected Refers to a particular item as specified in the name attribute below. Current This will reference the element from the current site, site area or content item that is being browsed by the user. AutoFill The element being referenced will be determined by the search parameters of a menu, navigator or taxonomy component.
name=" "	Enter the name and library of the item the element is being referenced from. For example, name="library/item". To use the library specified in the URL of the current page, use name="./item". Note: If a content item with the same name is used in more than one site, you can also specify name="library/site/sitearea/item" to select the appropriate content item. If you specify name="./item", the library name will not appear in your presentation template or element design. The actual path will not be resolved until the item is rendered.The "name" parameter is not used if context=current or context=autofill.
key=" "	This is the name of this element being referenced.
format=" "	This parameter is optional and can only be used with some component types: When referencing an image component: Use format="url" to only render the URL of an image component. Use format="alt" to only render the contents of the alt tag of an image component. Use format="tag" to render a complete image tag. The image will be displayed on the rendered page. This is used by default if no format is specified. When referencing a file resource component: Use format="HTML" If your file resource is a file type that can be converted to HTML you can instead convert the file to HTML and render the converted HTML directly. Examples of supported file types include: word processing documents (*.doc, .odt) spreadsheets (.xls) HTML files (.htm, .html) Text files (.txt) Other file types may also work but you will need to test them first. Note:** Maximum Cache SizeIf the converted HTML is larger than the default cache size defined by the resourceserver.maxCacheObjectSizeproperty in the WCM ConfigService.properties file, each request that contains this file will be converted dynamically instead of using the cached copy. This will impact performance. You may need to increase the size of the resourceserver.maxCacheObjectSizeproperty to support large file conversions. Before doing this your should ensure that your system has enough memory installed to cope with the increase in cache size. You could also break up the file into separate files that can be converted separately instead of increasing the cache size. When referencing file resource and image components: Use format="mimetype" to render the mime type of a file or image. If no valid mime type can be determined then "www/unknown" will be rendered. Use format="filename" to render the name of a file or image. Use format="size" to render the size of a file or image using the most appropriate unit. If the resource is smaller then 1K then the size in bytes will be rendered. If the size of the resource is less then 1MB then the size in kilobytes will be rendered. If the size is greater than or equal to 1MB then the size will be rendered in megabytes. Use format="size_bytes" to render the size of a file or image in bytes. Only the numeric value is displayed. Use format="size_KB" to render the size of a file or image in kilobytes. Only the numeric value is displayed. Use format="size_MB" to render the size of a file or image in megabytes. Only the numeric value is displayed. When referencing a link component: Use format="url" to render the full URL of a link component. For example:/wps/wcm/myconnect/Library/Site/SiteArea/Content Use format="path" to only render the site path of a link component. For example:/Library/Site/SiteArea/Content Use format="tag" to render a complete link tag. This is used by default if no format is specified. For example:<a href="/wps/wcm/myconnect/Library/Site/SiteArea/Content"></a> Note: The URL generated by the link component will be fully qualified when viewed through a portal. If you want to generate a URL that isn't fully qualified use the "noprefix" option instead: format="noprefixurl" format="noprefixpath" format="noprefixtag" When referencing number or date elements:In this case, the format is used to specify the display format of dates and numbers. The following formats can be defined when displaying dates: format="DATE_SHORT" format="DATE_MEDIUM" format="DATE_LONG" format="DATE_FULL" format="DATE_TIME_SHORT" format="DATE_TIME_MEDIUM" format="DATE_TIME_LONG" format="DATE_TIME_FULL" format="TIME_SHORT" format="TIME_MEDIUM" format="TIME_LONG" format="TIME_FULL" format="relative" (The relative date will be displayed as either "today", "yesterday" or the number of days ago.) You can also set user-defined formats for both dates and numbers. When referencing user details: When formatting user details, the format parameter is used to define which LDAP parameter to use when displaying user details. For example: format="cn" is used to display the common name. format="dn" is used to display the distinguished name. Maximum character length: You can also specify a maximum number of characters to display by using this format: format="length:number_of_characters" For example, to display a maximum of ten characters you would specify the following parameter: format="length:10"
link=" "	The link parameter is used to define the type of link created by the element tag:link="default"A standard link to an element is created. link="path"Contextual path linking will be used when rendering this element. link="contextual"Contextual content linking will be used when rendering this element. If not applicable, then contextual path linking is used. Note: Contextual linking:Contextual linking is used so that when content is linked from another site, the link will be rendered relative to the current site if possible. It can only be used if context=current or context=autofill.
separator=" "	This only used when referencing an option selection or user selection element. It is used to define what text or code will be rendered between each selection displayed in an option selection or user selection element. For example, to add a line break between each selection, you would use separator="<br>" . If not defined, a comma will be placed between each selection when rendered.
htmlencode=" "	If htmlencode="true" the reserved HTML characters in text, short text and option selection elements will be converted into character entities. For example, '<' will be converted to '<'. This is useful if you would like to prevent users adding malicious code, or if you want to prevent users changing the look and feel of their text using HTML.If not specified, the default setting specified in the WCMConfigService.properties file located in the was_profile_root/PortalServer/wcm/config/ directory is used. By default, this is set to "true":cmpnt.htmlEncodeDefault=true
awareness=" "	If awareness="true" then user names are displayed using the people awareness features. These features displays user names 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, as administrator, have also configured an IBM® Lotus® Sametime® server to work with WebSphere Portal, person links indicate whether a person is active, away, offline, or in a Do Not Disturb state.People awareness will only work in content rendered using either a local or remote rendering portlet. If not specified, then awareness="false" and people awareness is not used.
start=" "end=" "	The start and end attributes are used to wrap the data returned by a tag within other tags, such as HTML. These attributes are not mandatory.
/>	This closes the tag.

WCM Component Tags

The Component tag is used to reference the content of a component within a presentation template or element design.

<Component name=" " context="autofill" format=" " separator=" " compute=" " htmlencode=" " awareness=" " start=" " end=" " />

<Component	Opens a library component tag.
name=" "	Enter the name and library of the component being referenced. For example, name="library/item". To use the library specified in the URL of the current page, use name="./item".Note: If you specify name="./item", the library name will not appear in your presentation template or element design. The actual path will not be resolved until the item is rendered.The "name" parameter is not used if context="autofill".
context="autofill"	This parameter is only used when referencing a Component tag within a Personalization element design to display the results of a Personalization rule that searches for components.
start=" "end=" "	The start and end attributes are used to wrap the data returned by a tag within other tags, such as HTML. These attributes are not mandatory.
format=" "	This parameter is optional and can only be used with some component types: When referencing an image component: Use format="url" to only render the URL of an image component. Use format="tag" to render a complete image tag. The image will be displayed on the rendered page. This is used by default if no format is specified. When referencing a file resource component: Use format="HTML" If your file resource is a file type that can be converted to HTML you can instead convert the file to HTML and render the converted HTML directly. Examples of supported file types include: word processing documents (*.doc, .odt) spreadsheets (.xls) HTML files (.htm, .html) Text files (.txt) Other file types may also work but you will need to test them first. Note:** Maximum Cache SizeIf the converted HTML is larger than the default cache size defined by the resourceserver.maxCacheObjectSizeproperty in the WCM ConfigService.properties file, each request that contains this file will be converted dynamically instead of using the cached copy. This will impact performance. You may need to increase the size of the resourceserver.maxCacheObjectSizeproperty to support large file conversions. Before doing this your should ensure that your system has enough memory installed to cope with the increase in cache size. You could also break up the file into separate files that can be converted separately instead of increasing the cache size. When referencing file resource and image components: Use format="mimetype" to render the mime type of a file or image. If no valid mime type can be determined then "www/unknown" will be rendered. Use format="filename" to render the name of a file or image. Use format="size" to render the size of a file or image using the most appropriate unit. If the resource is smaller then 1K then the size in bytes will be rendered. If the size of the resource is less then 1MB then the size in kilobytes will be rendered. If the size is greater than or equal to 1MB then the size will be rendered in megabytes. Use format="size_bytes" to render the size of a file or image in bytes. Only the numeric value is displayed. Use format="size_KB" to render the size of a file or image in kilobytes. Only the numeric value is displayed. Use format="size_MB" to render the size of a file or image in megabytes. Only the numeric value is displayed. When referencing a link component: Use format="url" to render the full URL of a link component. For example:/wps/wcm/myconnect/Library/Site/SiteArea/Content Use format="path" to only render the site path of a link component. For example:/Library/Site/SiteArea/Content Use format="tag" to render a complete link tag. This is used by default if no format is specified. For example:<a href="/wps/wcm/myconnect/Library/Site/SiteArea/Content"></a> Note: The URL generated by the link component will be fully qualified when viewed through a portal. If you want to generate a URL that isn't fully qualified use the "noprefix" option instead: format="noprefixurl" format="noprefixpath" format="noprefixtag" When referencing number or date elements:In this case, the format is used to specify the display format of dates and numbers. The following formats can be defined when displaying dates: format="DATE_SHORT" format="DATE_MEDIUM" format="DATE_LONG" format="DATE_FULL" format="DATE_TIME_SHORT" format="DATE_TIME_MEDIUM" format="DATE_TIME_LONG" format="DATE_TIME_FULL" format="TIME_SHORT" format="TIME_MEDIUM" format="TIME_LONG" format="TIME_FULL" format="relative" (The relative date will be displayed as either "today", "yesterday" or the number of days ago.) You can also set user-defined formats for both dates and numbers. When referencing user details: When formatting user details, the format parameter is used to define which LDAP parameter to use when displaying user details. For example: format="cn" is used to display the common name. format="dn" is used to display the distinguished name. Maximum character length: You can also specify a maximum number of characters to display by using this format: format="length:number_of_characters" For example, to display a maximum of ten characters you would specify the following parameter: format="length:10"
compute=" "	This is only applicable to menu, navigator and taxonomy components. You specify compute="always" when you reference some JSP code within a component design, and you want that code to be run separately on each result returned by a menu, navigator and taxonomy component.For example, if a menu referenced JSP code that used the public DocumentId getCurrentResultId(); method, you would use compute="always" to make the JSP code run separately in every result returned by the menu. If not specified, then compute="once" is used which is the default method for delivering the results of menu, navigator and taxonomy components.
htmlencode=" "	If htmlencode="true" the reserved HTML characters in text and short text components will be converted into character entities. For example, '<' will be converted to '<'. This is useful if you would like to prevent users adding malicious code, or if you want to prevent users changing the look and feel of their text using HTML.If not specified, the default setting specified in the WCMConfigService.properties file. By default, this is set to "true":cmpnt.htmlEncodeDefault=true
awareness=" "	If awareness="true" then user names are displayed using the people awareness features. These features displays user names 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, as administrator, have also configured an IBM® Lotus® Sametime® server to work with WebSphere Portal, person links indicate whether a person is active, away, offline, or in a Do Not Disturb state.People awareness will only work in content rendered using either a local or remote rendering portlet. If not specified, then awareness="false" and people awareness is not used.
separator=" "	This only used when referencing a user selection component. It is used to define what text or code will be rendered between each selection. For example, to add a line break between each selection, you would use separator="<br>" . If not defined, a comma will be placed between each selection when rendered.
/>	This closes the tag.

WCM Placeholder tags

You use a placeholder tag to display metadata of an item. This is different from the

<placeholder tag=" " htmlencode=" " start=" " end=" " />

<placeholder	Opens a Placeholder Tag.
tag=" "	Determines which placeholder is being referenced: Name Title dn Href noprefixhref Namelink noprefixnamelink Titlelink noprefixtitlelink Sitepath Idnum Listnum Treenum Paddedtreenum Depth
htmlencode=" "	If htmlencode="true" the reserved HTML characters in the source will be converted into character entities. For example, '<' will be converted to '<'. This is useful if you would like to prevent users adding malicious code, or if you want to prevent users changing the look and feel of their text using HTML.If not specified, the default setting specified in the WCMConfigService.properties file located in the was_profile_root/PortalServer/wcm/config/ directory is used. By default, this is set to "true":cmpnt.htmlEncodeDefault=true
start=" "end=" "	The start and end attributes are used to wrap the data returned by a tag within other tags, such as HTML. These attributes are not mandatory.
/>	This closes the tag.

Placeholder types

Name	This is used to display the name of the site area or content being retrieved in a menu or navigator. This can also be used when you create a user name component, where you can add a placeholder tag in the design and specify tag="name" to render the name of the user.
Title	This is used to display the title of the site area or content being retrieved in a menu or navigator.
dn	This is for when you create a user name component. You can add a placeholder tag in the design and specify tag="dn" to render the distinguished name of the user.
HREF	This inserts a link to the page of the site area or content being retrieved in a menu or navigator.
noprefixhref	The URLs generated by "HREF" parameter will be fully qualified when viewed through a portal. To generate URLs with no prefix, use the "noprefixhref" parameter instead of the "HREF" parameter.
NameLink	This is a combination of the name and HREF tags. It assembles a complete link based on the name of the item being returned.
noprefixnameLink	The URLs generated by "nameLink" parameter will be fully qualified when viewed through a portal. To generate URLs with no prefix, use the "noprefixnameLink" parameter instead of the "nameLink" parameter.
TitleLink	This is a combination of the title and HREF tags. It assembles a complete link based on the title of the item being returned.
noprefixtitleLink	The URLs generated by "titleLink" parameter will be fully qualified when viewed through a portal. To generate URLs with no prefix, use the "noprefixtitleLink" parameter instead of the "titleLink" parameter.
Note: *Using a URLCmpnt tag.The URLCmpnt* tag is used to generate a URL to a site, site area or content item and can be used as an alternative to a placeholder when generating a URL. This is particularly useful when creating links to Web content displayed within rendering portlets.
sitepath	This is similar to the HREF placeholder except that it only display the site path of an items URL.For example, an HREF placeholder tag displaying a content item may give you: /ILWWCM/connect/metaorg/intranet/press+releasesWhereas the site path will give you: /metaorg/intranet/press+releasesFor example, an HREF placeholder tag displaying a site area may give you: /ILWWCM/connect/metaorg/intranet/Whereas the site path will give you: /metaorg/intranet Note that the final / slash is not included when the site path is displayed for sites and site areas.
Idnum	This returns the hexadecimal id value of an item. This can be used when creating static URLs in menus and navigators. You could hard-code the site/site area path in a menu or navigator element design and use the Idnum for each content item being displayed. This would allow you to display content with a different presentation template (for example, a printer friendly presentation template) or use different security settings.
Listnum	Displays a single column list of numbered links: First Second Third
Treenum	Displays a hierarchical numbered list:1.0 1.1 1.2 2.0 2.1 2.2
Paddedtreenum	Similar to Treenum, but the numbers are padded:0001 00010001 00010002 000100020001 000100020002
Depth	Displays the depth of the currently processed node (in a navigator or menu) as a number. A top-level node has a depth of 1.

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Monday, December 12, 2011

BP and Capabilities on WebSphere Portal

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Admin Console for WebSphere Portal and it's port information.