Redbook released for Managing WebSphere Portal 6.1 Environments

WebSphere Portal Family wiki has released a redbook for managing WebSphere Portal 6.1 environments. This document(wiki) provide information about how to set up a portal environment, including development, staging and production, and how to move changes through the system.

It's available on the WebSphere Portal wiki click here.

How to create 'Edit My Profile' link in custom theme

You may come across a scenario where you need to build a custome theme for the portal in which you need to hide the default lunch button and main menu. By doing this you found that "Edit My Profile" link normally accessed via the Launch button is also hidden.Therefore there is a need to display "Edit My Profile" link in the custom theme that displays at the top of each page.Link should also behave exactly the same way as the one in main menu.


Here are the steps you should follow to get the 'Edit My Profile' link working in your custom theme:

1. First you need to create a unique name for the portlet on selfcare page in portal.Use XMLAccess to export the selfcare page.


• Login to the portal with admin access and navigate to the Edit My Profile Page.


• There is an icon for exporting a page. Click on that.


• This will generate an XML file "pageExport.xml", save this on your system.


2. Update the file so that it has the basic format shown below. Delete the tags and add the uniquename attribute to the final tag as shown below in bold. Add nothing else; delete nothing else.
   
<br /> <component action="update" active="true" deletable="undefined" domain="rel" modifiable="undefined" objectid="7_UV9FQLI11G5GA026LUEL0D1OK0" ordinal="100" orientation="H" type="container" width="undefined"><br /><component action="update" active="true" deletable="undefined" domain="rel" modifiable="undefined" objectid="7_UV9FQLI11G5GA026LUEL0D1OK4" ordinal="99" orientation="V" type="container" width="undefined"><br /><component action="update" active="true" deletable="undefined" domain="rel" modifiable="undefined" objectid="7_UV9FQLI11G5GA026LUEL0D1OK2" ordinal="99" skinref="K_UV9FQLI11G5GA026LUEL0D10E1" type="control" width="undefined" uniquename="wps.t.Selfcare"><br /><portletinstance action="update" domain="rel" objectid="5_UV9FQLI11G5GA026LUEL0D1OK6" portletref="3_UV9FQLI11G5GA026LUEL0D1GQ5"><br /></component><br /></component><br /></component>


3. Save and close the file.


4. Open this xml file into the portal by navigating to Administration->WebSphere Portal->Portal Settings->Import XML->


Browse the xml file on your system and click on the import button. See for the message successfully imported.
5. Open the Default.jsp file in your custom theme in a text editor. In the appropriate place where your "Edit My Profile" link should appear, add the tags shown below.


• The contentNode attribute must contain the custom unique name of the 'Edit My Profile' page, i.e., "wps.Selfcare".


• The compositionNode attribute must contain the new custom unique name you just added via XMLAccess, i.e., "wps.t.Selfcare".
<portal-navigation:urlgeneration contentnode="wps.Selfcare" compositionnode="wps.t.Selfcare" portletwindowstate="Maximized" themetemplate=""><portal-navigation:urlparam type="render" name="ao" value="thm"><portal-navigation:urlparam type="render" name="OCN" value="ibm.portal.Home.Welcome"><a id="manageProfileLink" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8193607375900156692&postID=5962854348205659357"><portal-fmt:text key="'link.selfcare'" bundle="'nls.engine'/"></portal-fmt:text></a></portal-navigation:urlparam>


6. Save and close Default.jsp. Test the new "Edit My Profile" link to confirm that it works as expected.


Note: This procedure will not work in a portlet. You need to use the URL generation services to create links in the portlet to the page or other portlets.

IBM Updates WebSphere Portlet Factory

IBM has released latest version 6.1.2 of Websphere Portlet Factory to bring enhancements that will allow developers to get Web 2.0 applications up and running quicker than before. It runs on all the major operating systems and runs on websphere application server 6 & 7.

More details can be found at http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs011309-story08.html

Download WCM 6.1 redbook

Here comes a really great resource for all of you working on or going to work on ILWWCM. I must thank my friend krishna bhupathi (Currently working in IBM - US) for providing such a valuable resource.

You can down load this redbook from the following link.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/pdfwikiwcm61