Exploring connections portlets for webpshere portal8

We can integrate websphere portal and websphere connections then downloads connections portlets and show connections related information in portal.

Step1 :- Establish SSO between websphere portal and connections . Please see my previous blog on how to do sso.

Step2 :- Now import the siner certificates from connections to portal server.{Very important make sure both connections and portal uses same ldap}

Step3 :- Now download connections portlets{it will give paa file} from IBM solution catalog.

Step 4 :- Install the portlets
ConfigEngine.bat install-paa -DPAALocation=E:\SNPortlets.paa -DWasPassword=passw0rd_123
-DPortalAdminPwd=passw0rd_123

Step 5 :- Deploy the portlets
ConfigEngine.bat deploy-paa -DappName=SNPortlets -DWasPassword=passw0rd_123 -DPortalAdminPwd=passw0rd_123

Step 6:-  Assign secure , non-secure url and homepage handle
ConfigEngine.bat configure-SNPortlets -DICversion=4.5 -DICblogsHomepageHandle=homepage -DICemailSetting=email-exposed -DICtagSearchType=mysearch -DICdsxAdminId=lcadmin -DICdsxAdminPwd=passw0rd_123 -DICbaseURLunsecured=http://connection45.atech.com -DICbaseURL=https://connection45.atech.com -DWasPassword=passw0rd_123 -DPortalAdminPwd=passw0rd_123

Step 7 :-
ConfigEngine configure-SNPortletsSearch -DICversion=4.0 -DWasPassword=passw0rd_123 -DPortalAdminPwd=passw0rd_123

Step8 :- Now restart portal server create a page and give anonymous access for privileged user and add connections portlets to it. Below are list of out of box portlet available.

• Activities – Collaboration tool for collecting, organizing, sharing, and reusing work related to a project goal. 
• Activity Stream – Integration portlet that lets you monitor and interact with people and content that you are following. 
• Blogs – Online journals you can use to deliver timely information with a personal touch. 
• Bookmarks – Social bookmarking tool that you can use to save, organize, and share Internet and intranet bookmarks. 
• Tags – Meaningful keywords you can use to find associated content. 
• Profiles – Directory of colleagues you can use to build a network and locate expertise. 
• Wikis – Repository for sharing and collaborating on pages of interest to your group. 
• Forums – View and contribute to discussion topics. 
• Community Overview – View basic community information like the description, tags, and community owners. Perform basic community actions from the portlet. 
• Blogs Summary – Choose a view to see a snapshot of recent, latest, or featured blog activity 
• Profiles Summary – View a summary of information about your colleagues. 
• Forums Summary – View a list of forums that you can access. 
• Bookmarks Summary – View a list of bookmarks you can access. 
• Library – Upload, manage, organize, and collaborate on community files contained in a library

Output :-  You can create page and add portlets to it.  From portal8 by default after above steps you will get IBM Connections page with all connection-portlets.

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