SHOW301 - Make Your IBM Connections Deployment Your Own: Customize It!

SHOW301: Make Your IBM® Connections Deployment Your Own: Customize It!

Klaus Bild, Belsoft AG Wannes Rams, GFI

This presentation mentions the following Copyrights and Trademarks §  IBM® Connections

§  IBM Cognos®

§  IBM® Lotus® Connections 3.0

§  IBM® Domino®

§  IBM® Sametime®

§  IBM® Tivoli®

§  IBM® WebSphere®

§  Android™

§  BlackBerry®

§  CKEditor™

§  Firefox®

§  Google Maps™

§  Microsoft® Windows®

§  Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2

§  OASIS®

§  LinkedIn®

§  Twitter®

§  Wordpress®

Introduction About Klaus Bild

kbild.ch twitter.com/kbild

linkedin.com/in/kbild

Introduction About Wannes Rams

wannes.rams.be

twitter.com/wannesrams

linkedin.com/in/wannesrams

Introduction And what do Klaus and Wannes have in common?

Introduction Goal

Show you live what can be customized

and give you a starting point for your

own customizations

Agenda – First Part

§  Introduction

§  User Interface

§  Login Page

§  Notifications

§  Getting Started Page

§  Communities

§  Wikis

§  Profiles

§  Richtext Editor

Agenda – Second Part (if time will allow it)

§  Media Gallery Object Types

§  Mobile App

§  Reports

§  Desktop Plugin

§  IBM Connections Content Manager

Introduction So, who are you?

Introduction Our environment

§  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

§  IBM Connections 4.5 CR3 (IBM Domino LDAP, single box installation)

§  CONNECTIONS_CUSTOMIZATION_DEBUG enabled

§  Next Generation Theme

§  Profile templateReloading in profiles-config.xml set to 15 secs

§  Login credentials stored in soap.client.properties

-> Always disable debug & reloading settings in production!

Introduction Remarks

§  We use following abbreviations: – custom_dir: Customization directory, check the WebSphere variable

CONNECTIONS_CUSTOMIZATION_PATH (here D:\IBM\Connections\data\shared\customization\ )

– provision_dir: Provision directory, check the WebSphere variable CONNECTIONS_PROVISION_PATH (here D:\IBM\Connections\data\shared\provision\)

– profiles_dir: WebSphere profiles directory (here D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles)

– htdocs: HTTP Server htdocs directory (here D:\IBM\HTTPServer\htdocs)

User Interface – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Change logo and colors – Add a custom menu and permanent link

User Interface - Example

Custom menu

Custom permanent link

Custom colors, logo

User Interface – How to Change Logo and Colors

§  Open WAS Administrative Console and navigate to “Applications – WebSphere enterprise applications”

§  Stop Common App

§  We are using the Next Generation Theme http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_themes_for_IBM_Connections_4.5_CR1_ic451

§  NextGen Theme works different than the standard theme – We have to customize a source file (com.ibm.social.gen4.theme_4.0.0.cr3.jar) – This is more a hack than a proper documented way (but it is a supported way!) – Therefore you have to backup your changes before any fix/fixpack installation or upgrade

(the changes may be overwritten) – Standard theme customization is easier, just create your own theme css file in custom_dir\themes\defaultTheme

§  Go to folder provision_dir\webresources\

§  Open com.ibm.social.gen4.theme_4.0.0.cr3.jar with a zip program

§  Extract all files to provision_dir\webresources\com.ibm.social.gen4.theme_4.0.0.cr3\

§  Delete the file com.ibm.social.gen4.theme_4.0.0.cr3.jar

§  Rename the new folder to com.ibm.social.gen4.theme_4.0.0.cr3.jar REMARK: customizations can directly be tested, no repacking needed

§  Open the new folder com.ibm.social.gen4.theme_4.0.0.cr3.jar and navigate to resources\css\defaultTheme

§  Open defaultTheme.css with a text editor

§  Search .lotusui30 div.lotusBanner .lotusRightCorner

§  Replace the color gradient #3c404 - #151718 with #00b2ef - #00649d

§  Hide the IBM logo and add a new logo

§  Copy your referenced logo ibmconnect.png to the htdocs\images folder

§  Open WAS Administrative Console and navigate to „Applications – WebSphere enterprise applications“

§  Start the Common App

User Interface – Result Change Logo and Colors

§  Refresh the browser

User Interface – How to Custom Menu and Permanent Link

§  Copy the header.jsp file from profiles_dir\AppSrv01\installedApps\connectionsCell01\Homepage.ear\homepage.war\nav\templates to custom_dir\common\nav\templates

§  Open the copied header.jsp file with a text editor

§  Change/Add some lines at the end of the file"

Custom permanent link

Reference to custom menu

§  Copy the referenced image question.png to the htdocs\images folder

§  Create a folder called menu and create the referenced jsp file ibmconnect14.jsp

User Interface – Result Custom Menu and Permanent Link

§  Refresh your browser

User Interface – Resources

§  Customizing the user interface http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_the_user_interface_ic45

§  Customization of the Next Gen Theme http://kbild.ch/2013/07/customization-of-the-next-gen-theme-for-ibm-connections/

§  Customizing the navigation bar http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_the_navigation_bar_ic45

Login Page – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Add a disclaimer to the login page

Login Page – Example

Login Page – How to Alter the login.jsp

§  We need to change login.jsp. To do that copy profiles_dir/AppSrv01/installedApps/connectionsCell01/Blogs.ear/blogs.war/nav/templates/login.jsp to custom_dir\common\nav\templates

§  Replace the following part

§  With the following code to add the agreement text and agreement button

§  Next thing is to change the loginbutton to make it disabled and assign an id for reference in our javascript. Change this code

§  With this

Login Page – How to Add Javascript

§  Now we need to add a small piece of javascript to detect if the agreement was accepted to change the login button to enabled

§  To do this add following javascript to the script section of the file

Login Page – How to Add property file(s)

§  Last step is to add the property files that contain the actual text. To do so add a new file to custom_dir\strings

§  Name the file com.ibm.lconn.core.strings.templates.properties

§  You can add files for other languages if you have a multi-language deployment

Login Page – How to

§  Stop and Start the Common and Homepage App

Login Page – Result

Login Page – Resources

§  Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/lotus/LC30CustomizeFinal.pdf

Notifications – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Change default notifications texts – Change global sender for notifications – Change default notifications sending intervals – Change logo and colors

Notifications – Example

Custom colors, logo

Custom text

Changed sender

Notifications – Example

Change default weekly newsletters to daily

Notifications – How to Change Text

§  Open following folder: profiles_dir\Dmgr01\config\cells\connectionsCell01\LotusConnections-config\notifications\

§  Here you can find the source files for all the different notifications

§  Open notification(_en).properties in the \resources\nls\ folder

§  Change the text IBM Connections to IBM Connect 14

§  Do the same for each language file which you want to use

§  Go back to the notifications folder and now open the notification(_en).properties in \news\resources\nls\

§  Change every occurrence of IBM Connections to IBM Connect 14

Notifications – How to Change Logo and Colors

§  Go back to the notifications folder and now open the style.ftl in \news\aggregated\

§  Change every occurrence of color #474747 to #025d9c

§  Change the referenced footer image from ibmLogoWhite23.png to ibmconnect.png

§  Go back to notification and copy ibmconnect.png to resources\images

§  Stop an Start the News App

Notifications – How to Change Default Notifications Settings

§  Start the wsadmin client and execute connectionsConfig.py

§  Check out the notification-config.xml LCConfigService.checkOutNotificationConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

§  Open notification-config.xml in D:\temp

§  Change properties for sender and mobile links

§  Change all defaultFollowFrequency="WEEKLY” to defaultFollowFrequency=”DAILY"

§  Close the file and check it in LCConfigService.checkInNotificationConfig()

§  Execute newsAdmin.py

§  Run following command to refresh the default Email settings: NewsEmailDigestService.refreshDefaultEmailPrefsFromConfig()

Notifications – Result Change Default Notifications Settings

§  Check the new settings in the browser by resetting to default notifications settings

Notifications – Result Change Logo and Colors

§  You can trigger the email digests by accessing the following URL to verify your settings (admin will only receive digest) http://connections.snt.com/news/web/testEmailDigestSendMail.action?type=daily

§  Or for all users http://connections.snt.com/news/web/testEmailDigestSendMail.action?type=daily&initNextTranche=true

Notifications – Result Change Logo and Colors

§  Check Newsletters in your mail client (Desktop and Mobile)

Mail on Mobile

Notifications – Resources

§  Customizing notifications http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_notifications_ic45

§  Including mobile links in notifications http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Including_mobile_links_in_notifications_ic45

§  Setting the default frequency of email digests http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Setting_the_default_frequency_of_email_digests_ic45

§  Verifying email digests http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Verifying_email_digests_ic45

Getting Started Page – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Add a tab to the Getting Started Page

Getting Started Page – Example

Getting Started Page – How to

§  To add a tab to the getting started page we need to start the wsadmin client and execute homepageAdmin.py

§  Check out the gettingstarted-config.xml HomepageCellConfig.checkOutGettingstartedConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

§  Add following to the gettingstarted-config.xml file

§  All content must share the same host (http://connections.snt.com). Use your IBM http server to host the content

§  To add the text for the tab, add a customization file to custom_dir\strings

§  Name it com.ibm.lconn.homepage.resources.nls.jsp.jsp_resources.properties and add the title for the tab

§  You can add files for other languages if you have a multi-language deployment

§  Close the file and check it in HomepageCellConfig.checkInGettingstartedConfig()

§  Execute connectionsConfig.py and run following commands to update your configuration/version stamp LCConfigService.checkOutConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’) LCConfigService.updateConfig(“versionStamp”,””) LCConfigService.checkInConfig()

§  Stop an Start the Homepage App

Getting Started Page – Result

Getting Started Page – Ressources

§  Customizing the Getting Started view http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_the_Getting_Started_view_ic45

Communities – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Create two additional Community themes – Add labels for this new themes – Add the themes – Create two simple Widgets – Add these Widgets to Communities

Communities – Example Theme

Two new themes (Belsoft, Gfi)

Communities – How to Theme

§  Take defaultTheme.css as template and create a new theme css (nameTheme.css) in folder custom_dir\themes\nameTheme\ -> create folders belsoftTheme and gfiTheme and create files belsoftTheme.css and gfiTheme.css in this folders

§  Take your customized NextGen defaultTheme.css as source for the new css files (provision_dir\webresources\com.ibm.social.gen4.theme_4.0.0.cr3.jar\resources\css\defaultTheme)

§  change all relative paths to absolute ../../sprite/sprite16.png - > /com.ibm.social.gen4.theme/sprite/sprite16.png

§  Customize the theme css files (Belsoft, Gfi) by changing the color gradients

§  Pay special attention how to link your custom images and where you have to place them

§  Start the wsadmin client and execute communitiesAdmin.py

§  Check out the communities-config.xml CommunitiesConfigService.checkOutConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

§  Open communities-config.xml in D:\temp

§  Add your new themes (the labels and thumbnails will be added in the next steps)

§  Check in communities-config.xml CommunitiesConfigService.checkInConfig()

§  Add com.ibm.lconn.communities.strings.ui.properties to custom_dir\strings folder and add your labels

§  Copy the theme thumbnail images to custom_dir\communities\images

§  Stop and Start the Communities App

Communities – Result Theme

§  Open a Community and change the theme to one of the new themes

Communities – Example Widgets

Communities – How To Widgets

§  We will add two very simple widgets to the Communities application. An iFrame widget showing clickable images that will guide you through the community and a widget that will show the displayname and email address of the logged on user.

§  Add the widgets to your communities customization path custom_dir\communities

§  Test if you can access the widget descriptor

Communities – How To Widgets §  Now we add the widget to our Connections communities, start the wsadmin client and

execute communitiesAdmin.py

§  Check out the widgets-config.xml CommunitiesConfigService.checkOutWidgetsConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01')

§  Open widgets-config.xml in D:\temp

§  Add your new widget definition

§  Check in widgets-config.xml CommunitiesConfigService.checkInWidgetsConfig()

This will define the widget to display in the middle column of the community

§  Stop and Start the Communities App

Communities – Result Widgets

§  Go to your Community and click “Community Actions – Customize”

§  Select your widgets to add them

Communities – Resources

§  Adding a custom theme to Communities http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Adding_a_custom_theme_to_Communities_ic45

§  Branding Communities in IBM Connections (Jerald Mahurin) http://www.sociallycurious.com/2013/05/21/branding-communities-ibm-connections

§  Enabling custom widgets for Communities http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Enabling_custom_widgets_for_Communities_ic45

Wikis – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Change the default Welcome Page of Wikis

Wikis – Example

Wikis – How to Welcome Page

§  Create a new Wiki and click edit

§  Change the Welcome Page to your needs, we will use it as template for the customization

§  Switch to the HTML Source view and copy the HTML code

§  Paste the HTML code into a file and remove all “end of lines” (EOL)

§  Create com.ibm.lconn.share.services.handlers.wiki.nls.WikiWelcomeMessages_en.properties in custom_dir\strings\ and add your title and HTML code (one line!)

§  Create a property file for every language you want to support

§  Stop and Start the Wikis App

Wikis – Result Welcome Page

§  Create a new Wiki

Wikis – Resources

§  Customizing the Wikis welcome page http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_the_Wikis_welcome_page_ic45

Profiles - Agenda

§  Add custom profile fields

§  Synchronize custom fields using IBM TDI

§  Add a profile widget

§  Add profile types

Profiles – Introduction Add custom profile fields

§  In this part we will: – Add custom profile fields – Create customized labels – Add custom macros for advanced layout – Edit the freemarker templates to display the custom fields

Profiles – Example Add custom profile fields

Custom field from LDAP

Custom field type

Profiles – Example Add custom profile fields

Custom field type

Profiles – How To Add custom profile fields

§  Start the wsadmin client and execute profilesAdmin.py

§  Check out the profiles-config.xml ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

§  We need to declare the custom fields in the profiles-config.xml, open the file with a text editor

§  Add following attributes to the Profile Data Model

§  Now we need to associate the new fields with a profile type

§  To do so, edit the profiles-types.xml and add the new fields to the default profile

§  Check in the profiles-config.xml ProfilesConfigService.checkInConfig()

§  We need to add custom strings for the interface labels

§  To do so we will create a custom resource bundle com.connect.profiles.strings.uilabels.properties in custom_dir\strings

§  Create translation files for all languages you want to support

§  Now we need to register the custom resource bundle and make it available for the Freemarker templates

§  To register the file, check out the Connections configuration. First execute connectionsConfig.py and the check out LotusConnections-config.xml LCConfigService.checkOutConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

§  Add following to the LotusConnections-config.xml file in the resources section

§  Check in the configuration file LCConfigService.checkInConfig()

§  Check out the profiles-config.xml again ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

§  Edit the profiles-config.xml file and add a reference to the registered bundle

§  Next step is to add some custom macros for advanced controls. Instead of adding these to the commonUtil.ftl file that comes with Connections we will add these to a custom file to easy any upgrades and further customization

§  Create a file customControls.ftl in profiles_dir\Dmgr01\config\cells\connectionsCell01\LotusConnections-config\profiles\templates

§  This file will contain functions to render radio buttons, multiselect buttons and drop-down lists. We will show some parts of the file on the next slide.

§  To be able to alter your profile we first need to edit the profileEdit.ftl file in D:\temp

§  We need to import the newly created custom controls

§  Adjust the file to display the fields required and import the sections to change the visualization

§  We need to alter profileDetails.ftl in D:\temp to show the content in non-edit mode

§  Check in the profiles-config.xml again and synchronize all nodes (this will copy customControls.ftl to all nodes). REMARK: we already changed the template reloading to 15 seconds ProfilesConfigService.checkInConfig() synchAllNodes()

Profiles – Introduction Synchronize custom fields using TDI

§  In this part we will: – Synchronize a custom profile field with the LDAP server using TDI

§  We will synchronize the twitter Id from LDAP to the Profiles database using TDI

§  To do so, you need to add the following to your tdi-profiles-config.xml file in D:\IBM\TDI\V7.1\tdisol\TDI\conf\LotusConnections-config

Profiles – How To Synchronize custom fields using TDI

§  The data is stored in the “twitterid” field in LDAP

§  Run your sync script

Profiles – How to

§  Stop and Start the Profiles App

Profiles – Result Custom profile fields §  Open a profile and test your custom fields

Profiles – Introduction Widget

§  In this part we will add a custom google widget to profiles: – Create widget – Add widget

Profiles – Example Widget

Office address displayed on Google Maps

Profiles – How to Widget §  Create your widget called googleMap.xml in custom_dir\profiles

Profiles – How to Widget

Profiles – How to Widget §  Now we add the widget to our Connections profiles, start the wsadmin client and execute

profilesAdmin.py

§  Check out the widgets-config.xml ProfilesConfigService.checkOutWidgetConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01')

Profiles – How to Widget §  Open widgets-config.xml in D:\temp

§  Add your new widget

Profiles – How to Widget §  Check in widgets-config.xml

ProfilesConfigService.checkInWidgetConfig()

Profiles – Result Widget §  Open a profile and test your widget

Profiles – Introduction Add profile types

§  In this part we will add a second profile type. This profile type will contain only a subset of the profile attributes that the default profile will have. We will also disable widgets based on the profile

§  What are profile types – Definition of different types of users – Allows to change look and feel of the profiles application – Example: customer, employee, contractor

§  Why use profile types – Show different data for different types of users – Block certain features – Block built in widgets – Block custom widgets – Limit information stream – Phase a rollout

Profiles – Example Add profile types

Profiles – How To Add profile types

§  First thing we need to decide is what field in LDAP will define the profile type. In this example we will use an existing field that is not used for anything else

§  Now we need to configure TDI to add the profile type to the Profiles database. Alter the map_dbrepos_from_source.properties file in your TDI Solution directory and map profileType to your field in LDAP

Profiles – How To Add profile types §  Now run your TDI sync command

§  This is what you will see in the Employee database

§  Start the wsadmin client and execute profilesAdmin.py

§  Check out the profiles-config.xml ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

§  We need to define the profile types and the profile fields we want to show in the file profiles-types.xml

§  We can now disable profile features or widgets based on the profile type. We will start with the profile features

§  Open profiles-policy.xml and add the desired configuration

§  Check in the profiles configuration ProfilesConfigService.checkInConfig()

§  Login with the external user

Profiles – Result Add profile types

Tagging enabled when logged on as external user

No Twitter Id

Profiles – Result Logged in with internal user

Tagging disabled No invitation button Disabled

§  We will now disable widgets based on the profile type

§  Check out the widget configuration.

§  Disable the widgets you don’t want to show in widgets-config.xml

§  Check in the widget configuration again and restart the profiles application

Profiles – Result Add profile types

Tags and sand gone Tabs gone All widgets gone

except links

Profiles – Resources

§  Adding custom widgets to Profiles http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Adding_custom_widgets_to_Profiles_ic45

§  Customizing IBM Connections – Modifying the Report-To Chain iWidget to include profile data retrieved via Ajax (Hunter Medney) https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/hmedney/entry/customizing_connections_modifying_the_report_to_chain_widget_using_profile_data

§  Connections iWidget Development Guide http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/development-guide

§  Easy as a pie – Creating Widgets for IBM Connections (Mikkel Heisterberg) http://www.slideshare.net/lekkim/bp207-easy-as-pie-creating-widgets-for-ibm-connections

§  Customizing IBM Connections 4.0 Profiles http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_IBM_Connections_4.0_Profiles

Profiles – Resources

§  Customizing Profiles http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_Profiles_ic45

§  Phasing an IBM Connections Rollout? Profile Types May Be the Answer https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/socialbusiness/entry/phasing_an_ibm_connections_rollout_profile_types_may_be_the_answer4

§  Profile types and locking profile features http://www.slideshare.net/palmke/profile-types-and-locking-profile-features-15498931

Richtext Editor – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Create a new plugin – Add the plugin to the Richtext Editor

Richtext Editor – Example

Richtext Editor – How to

§  You have to know how to create CKEditor Plugins http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Tutorials

§  Create your Business Card plugin

§  Place your plugin in custom_dir\javascript\com\ibm\oneui\ckeditor\editor\plugins\

§  Open provision_dir\webresources\com.ibm.lconn.blogs.web.resources_*.jar with a zip program and extract ckeditor.js from \resources folder

§  Copy ckeditor.js to custom_dir\javascript\lconn\blogs\ (or wikis)

§  Open ckeditor.js and add the new plugin

§  Stop and Start the Common App

Richtext Editor – Result

§  Refresh your browser cache

§  Create a new Blog entry and test the plugin

Richtext Editor – Resources

§  CKEditor Tutorials http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Tutorials

§  Tutorial – Extending the IBM Connections Rich Text Editor (Rob Novak) http://ibmrockstar.com/2013/05/tutorial-extending-the-ibm-connections-rich-text-editor

Second Part (if time will allow it)

Second Part – Examples

Media Gallery Object types – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Add a custom object type for the media gallery – Add custom properties to the object type – Show how to enable and use the new object type

Media Gallery Object types – Example

§  Object types are defined in XML according to the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard.

§  Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is an open standard that allows different content management systems to inter-operate

§  CMIS provides a common data model covering typed files and folders with generic properties that can be set or read. There is a set of services for adding and retrieving documents ('objects')

§  For this example we create a file connect_photo.xml in D:\temp

Media Gallery Object types – How to Create your custom object type definition file

<cmis:propertyStringDefinition>

<cmis:localName>location</cmis:localName>

<cmis:localNamespace>location</cmis:localNamespace>

<lcmis:displayNameKey>custom_location_title_key</lcmis:displayNameKey>

<cmis:queryName>custom:location</cmis:queryName>

<lcmis:descriptionKey>custom_location_summary_key</lcmis:descriptionKey>

<cmis:propertyType>string</cmis:propertyType>

<cmis:cardinality>single</cmis:cardinality>

<cmis:updatability>readwrite</cmis:updatability>

<cmis:inherited>false</cmis:inherited>

<cmis:required>true</cmis:required>

<cmis:queryable>true</cmis:queryable>

<cmis:orderable>true</cmis:orderable>

<cmis:openChoice>false</cmis:openChoice>

<cmis:maxLength>64</cmis:maxLength>

</cmis:propertyStringDefinition>

<cmis:propertyDateTimeDefinition> <cmis:localName>date</cmis:localName>

<cmis:localNamespace>http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/cmis/logicaltypes</cmis:localNamespace> <lcmis:displayNameKey>photo1_date2_key</lcmis:displayNameKey> <cmis:queryName>custom:date1</cmis:queryName>

<lcmis:descriptionKey>photo1_date2_summary_key</lcmis:descriptionKey> <cmis:propertyType>datetime</cmis:propertyType>

<cmis:cardinality>single</cmis:cardinality> <cmis:updatability>readwrite</cmis:updatability>

<cmis:inherited>false</cmis:inherited> <cmis:required>true</cmis:required>

<cmis:queryable>true</cmis:queryable> <cmis:orderable>true</cmis:orderable> <cmis:openChoice>false</cmis:openChoice>

</cmis:propertyDateTimeDefinition>

Media Gallery Object types – How to Create your custom object type definition file

Media Gallery Object types – How to Create your custom object type definition file <cmis:propertyStringDefinition>

<cmis:localName>project</cmis:localName>

<cmis:localNamespace>project</cmis:localNamespace>

<lcmis:displayNameKey>custom_project_title_key</lcmis:displayNameKey>

<cmis:queryName>custom:project</cmis:queryName>

<lcmis:descriptionKey>custom_project_summary_key</lcmis:descriptionKey>

<cmis:propertyType>string</cmis:propertyType>

<cmis:cardinality>single</cmis:cardinality>

<cmis:updatability>readwrite</cmis:updatability>

<cmis:inherited>false</cmis:inherited>

<cmis:required>true</cmis:required>

<cmis:queryable>true</cmis:queryable>

<cmis:orderable>true</cmis:orderable>

<cmis:choice displayNameKey="IBM Connect">

<cmis:value>choice1Value</cmis:value>

</cmis:choice>

<cmis:choice displayNameKey="Gartner Symposium">

</cmis:choice>

<cmis:choice displayNameKey="Engage Benelux">

</cmis:choice>

<cmis:openChoice>false</cmis:openChoice>

<cmis:maxLength>64</cmis:maxLength>

</cmis:propertyStringDefinition>

<cmis:propertyBooleanDefinition> <cmis:localName>approved</cmis:localName>

<cmis:localNamespace>approved</cmis:localNamespace> <lcmis:displayNameKey>custom_approved_title_key</lcmis:displayNameKey> <cmis:queryName>custom:approved</cmis:queryName>

<lcmis:descriptionKey>custom_approved_summary_key</lcmis:descriptionKey> <cmis:propertyType>boolean</cmis:propertyType>

<cmis:cardinality>single</cmis:cardinality> <cmis:updatability>readwrite</cmis:updatability>

<cmis:inherited>false</cmis:inherited> <cmis:required>true</cmis:required>

<cmis:queryable>true</cmis:queryable> <cmis:orderable>true</cmis:orderable> <cmis:openChoice>false</cmis:openChoice>

</cmis:propertyBooleanDefinition> …

Media Gallery Object types – How to Import the definition §  Start the wsadmin client and execute filesAdmin.py

§  Import the CMIS file and check if the import was successfull FilesObjectTypeService.importType(“D:/temp/connect_photo.xml”) FilesObjectTypeService.browseTypes()

§  Open profiles_dir\AppSrv01\installedApps\connectionsCell01\Files.ear\share.services.jar file with a zip program and navigate to com\ibm\lconn\files\strings. Copy the cmis.properties file to custom_dir\strings

Media Gallery Object types – How to Add labels

§  Rename the cmis.properties file to com.ibm.lconn.files.strings.cmis.properties

Media Gallery Object types – How to Add labels

§  Add new property labels as key-value pairs

Media Gallery Object types – How to

§  Stop and Start the Files App

Media Gallery Object types – How to Use new object type in Community

§  Clear your browser cache and check the results

§  Edit your Media Gallery §  Change the value for Photo to the newly created

object type

Media Gallery Object types – How to Import the definition §  Start the wsadmin client and execute communitiesAdmin.py

§  Check out the Communities Widget configuration CommunitiesConfigService.checkOutWidgetsConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01’)

Media Gallery Object types – How to Set definition as default for all

§  Open widgets-config.xml and change the mg_PhotoType value to the id of the new objecttype. You can find the id by using the FilesObjectTypeService.browseTypes() wsadmin command in the Files Configuration

Media Gallery Object types – How to Set definition as default for all

§  Check the configuration back in

§  Restart the Files application

Media Gallery Object Types – Resources

§  Creating custom media gallery object types http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Creating_custom_media_gallery_object_types_ic45

§  OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=cmis

Mobile App – Introduction

§  In this part we will add following: – A link to the IBM Sametime App – A link to a Website

Mobile App – Example

Opens a webpage

Questions?

§  Access Connect Online to complete your session surveys using any: – Web or mobile browser – Connect Online kiosk onsite

Mobile App – How to Preparation

§  You need the following images ready for every function (open Sametime, open link) –  iOS Retina (48 x 48px) –  iOS Standard (24 x 24px) – Low density for Android / BlackBerry (~24 x 24px) – Medium density for Android / BlackBerry (~32 x 32px) – High density for Android / BlackBerry (~48 x 48px) You can find examples for the images in profiles_dir\AppSrv01\installedApps\connectionsCell01\Mobile.ear\mobile.web.war\extensibilityIcons

Use transparent png/gif’s for best results (selected/not selected)

Mobile App – How to

§  Place the images in custom_dir\mobile\

Mobile App – How to §  Now we add the new Mobile functions, start the wsadmin client and execute mobileAdmin.py

§  Check out the mobile-config.xml MobileConfigService.checkOutConfig('D:/temp','connectionsCell01')

§  Open mobile-config.xml and add following to the <Applications> sections

§  Check in mobile-config.xml MobileConfigService.checkInConfig()

§  Stop and Start the Mobile App

Mobile App – Result

Reports – Example

Number of visits per App over the time

Reports – How to

We will not cover this topic in this presentation because IBM Cognos is too heavy for our machines ;-)

But steps would be:

§ Define the custom report & check dimensions/events – Pencil&Paper

§ Create Report with IBM Cognos Report Studio (We would recommend to use Firefox Version 3.5/3.6!)

§ Add Report to Global/Community Report list

Reports – Resources

§  Community report customization for Connections 4.0 Metrics http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Community_report_customization_for_Connections_4.0_Metrics

§  Create new Cognos metrics report http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Connections_4.0_Metrics_customizationcol_create_new_Cognos_metrics_report

§  Customizing reports based on the events captured in Metrics 4.0 http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_reports_based_on_the_events_captured_in_Metrics4.0

§  Give your community owners the reports they really need – Step by step http://www.slideshare.net/kbild/give-your-community-owners-the-reports-they-really-need

Desktop Plugin – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Customize the look and feel of the Desktop Connector for IBM Connections

Desktop Plugin – Example

Desktop Plugin – How to Preparation

§  You need the following images ready – Desktop Image (256 x 256 .ico file) – SystemTray busy image (16x16 .ico file) – SystemTray idle image (16x16 .ico file) – SystemTray pending image (16x16 .ico file) – Context Menu image (13x13 .bmp file) – Office Send To image (32x32.bmp file) – Outlook Business card image (16x16.bmp file)

Desktop Plugin – How to

§  Edit the registry, to automate use group policies

§  Make sure you take into account differences in registry keys for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions

§  Change / Add following Registry Keys

– HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{21034BDC-B57E-400B-A5D5-2B1E98502805} •  (Default)=“Connect 2014” •  InfoTip=“Connect 2014”

– HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{21034BDC-B57E-400B-A5D5-2B1E98502805}\DefaultIcon

•  (Default)=“c:\rebrand-256x256.ico”

– HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors\Branding

•  Main Title=“Connect 2014” – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors

\Branding\Monitor •  SystemTray Busy Image=“c:\rebrand-16x16busy.ico” •  SystemTray PendingImage=“c:\rebrand-16x16pending.ico” •  SystemTray Idle Image=“c:\rebrand-16x16idle.ico” •  SystemTray Title=“Connect 2014”

– HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors\Branding\Office

•  Backstage SendTo Image=“c:\rebrand-32x32.bmp” •  BackStage SendTo Tiltle=“Connect 2014” •  RibbonTab Title=“Connect 2014”

– HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors\Branding\Outlook

•  ContextMenu ContactCard Image=“c:\rebrand-16x16.bmp” •  Explorer RibbonTab Title=“Connect 2014” •  Inspector RibbonTab Title=“Connect 2014” •  Menu Title=“Connect 2014” •  Toolbar Title=“Connect 2014” •  ContextMenu ContactCard Title=“Connect 2014”

– HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors\Branding\ShellExt

•  ContextMenu Image=“c:\rebrand-13x13.bmp” •  ContextMenu Title=“Connect 2014”

Desktop Plugin – Resources

§  Customizing the branding strings and images for the desktop plug-in http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Customizing_the_branding_strings_and_images_for_the_desktop_plugin_lv45

Connections Content Manager – Introduction

§  In this part we will: – Create custom CCM property fields – Create a custom CCM document type – Add the new property fields to the document type – Change the default document type of a Community

Connections Content Manager – Example Document Types

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Open the Administration Console for Content Platform Engine

(https://connections.snt.com/acce) and logon as CCM Admin

§  Open the “ICObjectStore “

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  First we create property fields which we will add to a document type later on

§  Open “Data Design” and right click on “Property Templates”

§  Choose “New Property Template” and call it Abstract, click “Next”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Choose String as “Data Type”, click “Next”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Leave default values in the next 2 screens and click “Finish” and “Close”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Create a second new property template and call it Track and choose String as “Data Type”

§  Click “Assign choice list” on the “Select Choice List or Marking Set” Screen and click on “New…”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Use Track List as “Display Name” and click “Next”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Use String as list data type and click “Next”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Now we create the items, click on “New Items” and add Best Practices, Jump Starts and

Show ‘n Tell as display names. Click “OK”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Back on the “Add Choice List Items” screen click “Next”, after that click “Finish” and “Close”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Back on the “New Property Template” screen click “Next” and click “Finish”, “Close”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Now we create the new document type by opening “Classes” and right clicking on

“Document”

§  Choose “New Class” and call it IBM Connect session and click on “Next”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Click “Finish” and “Open”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Select the “Property Definitions” tab, click on “Add” and select the new properties “Abstract”

and “Track” before clicking on “OK”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Click “Save” and “Close” and “Log Out”

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Go back to one of your Connections Communities and edit the Community

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Click on the “Library” tab and change the “Default document type” to IBM Connect session

Connections Content Manager – How to Document Types §  Inside this community go to the Library App and add a file

If you can’t see the document type properties restart the FNCS app

Connections Content Manager – Resources

§  Creating and managing document types http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Creating_and_managing_document_types_ic45

§  Create new document types in IBM Connections Content Manager (Roberto Boccadoro) http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Create_new_document_types_in_IBM_Connections_Content_Manager

Questions?

§  Access Connect Online to complete your session surveys using any: – Web or mobile browser – Connect Online kiosk onsite

Acknowledgements and Disclaimers

§  IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, IBM Connections, IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Sametime, IBM WebSphere, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, IBM Domino, IBM Cognos, IBM Cognos Report Studio are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. If these and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with a trademark symbol (® or ™), these symbols indicate U.S. registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published. Such trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other countries. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml

Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

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