In the event you missed it, IBM Forms Experience Builder 8.5 brings a new capability to IBM Connections, Community Surveys. This has been asked for by multiple customers I have worked with and am very excited to see this addition!
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lfwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=Forms+Experience+Builder+8.5+documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Surveys_in_IBM_Connections_communities_FEB_850&content=pdcontent
Here is the doc to get you started.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Yammer Starter
http://www.packtpub.com/yammer-starter/book
I recently had the pleasure of assisting an author bring his book vision to fruition and would like to share the output of these efforts. Please take a moment and check it out. This is a great resource if you are introducing someone to Yammer for the first time.
I recently had the pleasure of assisting an author bring his book vision to fruition and would like to share the output of these efforts. Please take a moment and check it out. This is a great resource if you are introducing someone to Yammer for the first time.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Open Mic Webcast: Installing and Configuring Metrics in IBM Connections 4.0 - 27 February 2013
This is a very near and dear topic for me, so I thought I would share. Metrics and I have been frenemies for a bit now, maybe for you as well.
Abstract
IBM Collaboration Solutions (Lotus) support wants to help you take full advantage of your products. Join us for our Open Mic webcasts as technical experts share their knowledge and answer your questions.
These webcasts are designed to address specific topics and provide an in-depth and focused technical exchange in a convenient online webcast format.
This event's topic is "Installing and Configuring Metrics in IBM Connections 4.0."
These webcasts are designed to address specific topics and provide an in-depth and focused technical exchange in a convenient online webcast format.
This event's topic is "Installing and Configuring Metrics in IBM Connections 4.0."
Content
Topic: Installing and Configuring Metrics in IBM Connections 4.0
Day: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Time: 11:00 AM EST (16:00 UTC/GMT, UTC-5 hours) for 60 minutes
To ask a question in advance of this event, post your question as a response to this forum post.
For more information about our Open Mic webcasts, visit the IBM Collaboration Solutions Support Open Mics page.
Time: 11:00 AM EST (16:00 UTC/GMT, UTC-5 hours) for 60 minutes
To ask a question in advance of this event, post your question as a response to this forum post.
For more information about our Open Mic webcasts, visit the IBM Collaboration Solutions Support Open Mics page.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Connections 4: Profiles Customization Gets More Flexible
So I am not sure if anyone else has really spent time with this feature yet or not, but IBM has rewritten the was Profiles customization and extension happens. It now takes advantage of the FreeMarker templating system for customizing Profiles, Business Cards, and Profile Search results.
IBM has provided a demo example in the product wiki to walk you through the steps to execute a simple extension.
The beauty of this approach is that code which would previously have been put into a custom attribute definition (which still works for backwards compatibility) can now be either placed into a custom FreeMarker macro in the commonUtil.ftl or can simply be wrapped around the display macro for the field in the other templates.
One word of advice, the documentation still has remnants of the Connections 3.x methodologies and links within some of the pages weave you between both methodologies. When looking for information on enabling extension attributes for editing via the API, for example, it still references all configuration being done in the profiles-config.xml. That file has been broken up into multiple files, with certain configuration remaining there and other configurations being moved to profiles-types.xml.
If the OOTB template files are not extreme enough of a UI change for you, it would appear that the documentation indicates you can completely rewrite the display and editing templates to your liking. The ability to add/remove tabs from Profiles, reorder fields (which I have already used this for), add new fields, etc makes for a very flexible and interesting feature now.
Last note, there is a setting which you will want to explore:
This will ensure that while developing your templates checking them out and in without restart will render your changes.
Happy Customizing!
For more information about FreeMarker, check their SourceForge page here.
IBM has provided a demo example in the product wiki to walk you through the steps to execute a simple extension.
The beauty of this approach is that code which would previously have been put into a custom attribute definition (which still works for backwards compatibility) can now be either placed into a custom FreeMarker macro in the commonUtil.ftl or can simply be wrapped around the display macro for the field in the other templates.
One word of advice, the documentation still has remnants of the Connections 3.x methodologies and links within some of the pages weave you between both methodologies. When looking for information on enabling extension attributes for editing via the API, for example, it still references all configuration being done in the profiles-config.xml. That file has been broken up into multiple files, with certain configuration remaining there and other configurations being moved to profiles-types.xml.
If the OOTB template files are not extreme enough of a UI change for you, it would appear that the documentation indicates you can completely rewrite the display and editing templates to your liking. The ability to add/remove tabs from Profiles, reorder fields (which I have already used this for), add new fields, etc makes for a very flexible and interesting feature now.
Last note, there is a setting which you will want to explore:
<layoutConfiguration>
<!--
UI Template rendering configuration information
-->
<templateConfiguration>
<!-- FTL template reloading to test customization, in production this value should be set to 0, but during customization set to value in seconds -->
<templateReloading>1</templateReloading>
<!--
UI Template rendering configuration information
-->
<templateConfiguration>
<!-- FTL template reloading to test customization, in production this value should be set to 0, but during customization set to value in seconds -->
<templateReloading>1</templateReloading>
...
</templateConfiguration>
</layoutConfiguration>This will ensure that while developing your templates checking them out and in without restart will render your changes.
Happy Customizing!
For more information about FreeMarker, check their SourceForge page here.
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