Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows |
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Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows |
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, as administrator, have also configured an IBM Lotus® Sametime® server to work with WebSphere Portal Express, person links indicate whether a person is active, away, offline, or in a Do Not Disturb state.
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, the Lotus Collaborative Services, or both, are configured to work with WebSphere Portal Express.
The online status (Active, Away, Do Not Disturb, Offline) of the person appears only if Lotus Sametime is enabled. The Lotus Sametime status icon indicates whether a person is active, away, offline, or does not want to be disturbed.
Actions may also include:
Appears only if the People Finder portlet is on the current page. This action displays the person's profile in the organization directory, including (by default) business card information, contact information, current job, and background.
Note: 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.
Opens a new message in the user's preferred e-mail client as specified in browser and operating system.
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."
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.
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.
For more information about Lotus Sametime client features, see the Lotus Sametime documentation.
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:
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; it is provided by the Person JSP tag. 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.
For information on configuration of a collaborative portal, see Integrating Lotus Domino and the Extended Products and Portlets into WebSphere Portal Express, and when you complete collaborative configuration, pay special attention to Collaborative Services environment properties, which describes modifications to the CSEnvironment.properties file that support people awareness.
For details on the implementation of the Person tag, and instructions on customizing the tag for WebSphere Portal Express applications that you develop, see Collaborative Services API under Related reference.
