This is my presentation from AusLUG 2011 in AUG 2011 on Customising IBM Connections.

3. Executive Director of ISW – http://www.isw.com.au

4. Working with IBM/Lotus Tech since 1996

6. IBM Connections 3.x Design Partner

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12. Editable or Read Only

14. What else can you do?

15. Interaction & Questions are good!

17. Luis Benetiz – Lots of great ideas for integrating Widgets and other stuff ( http://www.lbenitez.com )

18. TDI Gurus - Curious Mitch ( www.curiousmitch.com ) & John Bilson (presenting at AUSLUG today)

19. Stuart McIntyre – Connections specialist in the UK ( http://www.ibmconnectionsblog.com ) and TWIL (http://thisweekinlotus.com)

20. My blog (http://www.collaborationblueprint.com)

22. Admin?

23. Developer?

24. Edited HTML & JSP?

25. Edited CSS?

26. Tivoli Directory Integrator?

28. Had to put changed files on the IHS server.

30. Also no need to move themes onto the HTTP server to customise them

31. Don’t need to restart all the time as well.

33. header.html

34. footer.html

36. Controls all of the colours and background images

37. Allows designers to change elements like link colours etc

40. Basically you take a copy of the original and put it in the Customisation Folders

41. This means it is much easier to manage and maintain moving forward

42. You can modify common, specific, or both.

46. CONNECTIONS_CUSTOMIZATION_DEBUG (must be set to true to enable customisations to take effect. Set back to false once customisations are completed)

48. Find the file you want to change from the installed application

49. Copy the file into the customisation directory at the correct-sub-directory

50. Make your changes and restart the affected applications.

52. height: 30px;

53. width: 145px;

55. Clear Cache from browser and reload.

62. Basically you identify the CSS elements you want to change and put them in the custom.css we created earlier.

63. Note if you want you can theme each application differently in which case you put them in the application customisations directory instead of common.

65. background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(center top , #5B554F 0%, #988F86 100%);

66. background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#5B554F), to(#988F86));

73. the aria-owns attribute,

74. the aria-label attribute,

75. and the String (ie replace <fmt:message key=&quot;label.menu.apps.name&quot; />) with your Menu item.

78. Save & Restart

79. At the end of the day the menu is just JSP so you can do whatever you want.

86. Save & Restart

90. Copy the entire line(s) you want to change from the old to the new file and change the text strings.

92. com.ibm.lconn.homepage.resources.nls.jsp.jsp_resources.properties

93. com.ibm.lotus.mobile.web.package.properties (For Mobile Web App)

102. Changing Field Labels or order

103. Enabling/Disabling Fields. Read Only/Editable Fields

104. Do fields appear in Profile if no data?

105. Adding Custom Fields (Field Extensions)

108. Out of the box it provides a series of Assembly Lines for populating & synching Profiles data from your LDAP

110. Also you can build your own Connectors

111. Pull data and push data from just about anywhere to keep it all in sync.

114. cd /<WASHOME>/profiles/Dmgr01/bin

115. ./wsadmin.sh –lang jython –user <wasadmin> -password <password> -port 8879

116. execfile(&quot;profilesAdmin.py&quot;)

117. print AdminControl.getCell() to get the cell name.

119. execfile(&quot;connectionsConfig.py&quot;)

120. LCConfigService.checkOutConfig(&quot; <working_directory> &quot;,&quot; <cell_name> &quot;)

121. Update the version stamp in LotusConnections-config.xml LCConfigService.updateConfig(&quot;versionStamp&quot;,&quot;&quot;)

122. LCConfigService.checkInConfig()

123. Restart Servers

125. You can also change their attributes – Editable/Read Only/Visible/Labels

126. You can also decide if fields with no data are hidden in read mode

128. Contractors

132. Each attribute in Profile and Edit My profile is controlled by an entry in this section.

136. We want the field to be editable and we want it to appear in read mode even if they havn’t provided the data.

146. Again controlled in profiles-config.xml

147. Just comment out the fields you don’t want and add in the extra’s you do.

152. ALWAYS CHECK OUT AND CHECK IN the config files. Edit in place at your own risk!

153. If it isn’t working clear your cache! Although if you update the versionID in LotusConnections-config.xml it should be fine

154. Remember CASE Sensitive in files/attributes etc.

155. Use appropriate Change Management and Versioning of files.

156. Experiment! The possibilities are endless!

158. Embed.ly enables you to embed web pages/youtube/slideshare etc etc directly into pages simply by the user posting a URL.

159. Works in Blogs/Status Updates/Forums/etc

160. You need to register at http://embed.ly for an Key. It is FREE!

163. $('div.lotusContent').embedly({key:‘YOURKEY'});

164. });

168. Integrate Google Gadgets and iWidgets

169. Have different Profile Types for different users

170. Update Business Cards. Integrate Business Cards

171. Modify Notification Emails

172. Show/Add/Hide iWidgets (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter)

173. Customise the Connections API to support your field extensions

174. Make more serious customisations to the JSP’s thru out Connections

176. Integrate your Apps with Connections!

177. And more and more and more!

179. Luis Benetiz – Lots of great ideas for integrating Widgets and other stuff ( http://www.lbenitez.com )

180. TDI Gurus - Curious Mitch ( www.curiousmitch.com ) & John Bilson (presenting at AUSLUG today)

181. Stuart McIntyre – Connections specialist in the UK ( http://www.ibmconnectionsblog.com ) and TWIL (http://thisweekinlotus.com)

182. My blog (http://www.collaborationblueprint.com)