Skip to main content

By clicking Submit, you agree to the developerWorks terms of use.

The first time you sign into developerWorks, a profile is created for you. Select information in your developerWorks profile is displayed to the public, but you may edit the information at any time. Your first name, last name (unless you choose to hide them), and display name will accompany the content that you post.

All information submitted is secure.

  • Close [x]

The first time you sign in to developerWorks, a profile is created for you, so you need to choose a display name. Your display name accompanies the content you post on developerworks.

Please choose a display name between 3-31 characters. Your display name must be unique in the developerWorks community and should not be your email address for privacy reasons.

By clicking Submit, you agree to the developerWorks terms of use.

All information submitted is secure.

  • Close [x]

Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 3.0

Ignacio Sanchez (sanchez.enjuto@es.ibm.com), Client Technical Professional for IBM Collaboration Solutions, IBM
Ignacio Sanchez photo
Ignacio Sánchez is a Lotus Client Technical Professional, focusing mainly on Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, and LotusLive. Ignacio has more than 3 years of experience providing technical sales support for Lotus products.
Jim Antill (antillji@ie.ibm.com), Software Developer, IBM
Jim Antill photo
Jim Antill is a Software Developer working on social and team collaboration software. Jim's main focus has been on the Member Management functionality within Lotus Quickr for WebSphere Portal 8.5, and accessibility customization in Lotus Connections.
Robert Campion (CAMPIONR@ie.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM
Robert Campion photo
Robert Campion joined IBM in 2008, since which time he has worked as a Software Engineer on Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections, primarily in the area of front-end development. He graduated from Dublin City University, Ireland, with a B.Sc. in Computer Applications.
Lorenzo Notarfonzo photo
Lorenzo Notarfonzo is a Software Engineer based at IBM's Dublin Software Laboratory, focusing on social software. Currently he works on Lotus Connections and is part of a team developing Homepage and News components, for which he also developed part of the Notification Framework. Lorenzo received his Master's degree in Software Engineering from the University of Roma III in 2005.

Summary:  This white paper describes the various ways in which you can customize IBM Lotus Connections 3.x, including adding your company logo to the interface, changing the colors shown in the UI, presenting an agreement document on the log-in screen, adding custom menus, etc. We show examples of how to make these changes and explain the relevant supporting technology.

Date:  30 Nov 2010
Level:  Intermediate

Activity:  11132 views
Comments:  

This white paper describes the various ways in which you can customize IBM Lotus® Connections 3.x, including adding your company logo to the interface, changing the colors shown in the UI, presenting an agreement document on the log-in screen, adding custom menus, etc. We show examples of how to make these changes and explain the relevant supporting technology.

In this white paper

  • Introduction
  • Understanding the Wsadmin tool
  • Setting up for customization
  • Customizing the interface
  • Customizing for your company policy
  • Customizing error pages
  • Internationalization
  • Working example: License agreement strings
  • Working example: Customizing blog JavaScript strings
  • Conclusion
  • Resources
  • About the authors

Download

DescriptionNameSizeDownload method
White paper in PDF formatLC30CustomizeFinal.pdf3,924 KBHTTP

Information about download methods          Get Adobe® Reader®


Resources

Biographies

Ignacio Sanchez photo

Ignacio Sánchez is a Lotus Client Technical Professional, focusing mainly on Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, and LotusLive. Ignacio has more than 3 years of experience providing technical sales support for Lotus products.

Jim Antill photo

Jim Antill is a Software Developer working on social and team collaboration software. Jim's main focus has been on the Member Management functionality within Lotus Quickr for WebSphere Portal 8.5, and accessibility customization in Lotus Connections.

Robert Campion photo

Robert Campion joined IBM in 2008, since which time he has worked as a Software Engineer on Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections, primarily in the area of front-end development. He graduated from Dublin City University, Ireland, with a B.Sc. in Computer Applications.

Lorenzo Notarfonzo photo

Lorenzo Notarfonzo is a Software Engineer based at IBM's Dublin Software Laboratory, focusing on social software. Currently he works on Lotus Connections and is part of a team developing Homepage and News components, for which he also developed part of the Notification Framework. Lorenzo received his Master's degree in Software Engineering from the University of Roma III in 2005.

Comments



Help: Update or add to My dW interests

What's this?

This little timesaver lets you update your My developerWorks profile with just one click! The general subject of this content (AIX and UNIX, Information Management, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, WebSphere, Java, Linux, Open source, SOA and Web services, Web development, or XML) will be added to the interests section of your profile, if it's not there already. You only need to be logged in to My developerWorks.

And what's the point of adding your interests to your profile? That's how you find other users with the same interests as yours, and see what they're reading and contributing to the community. Your interests also help us recommend relevant developerWorks content to you.

View your My developerWorks profile

Return from help

Help: Remove from My dW interests

What's this?

Removing this interest does not alter your profile, but rather removes this piece of content from a list of all content for which you've indicated interest. In a future enhancement to My developerWorks, you'll be able to see a record of that content.

View your My developerWorks profile

Return from help

static.content.url=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/js/artrating/
SITE_ID=1
Zone=Lotus
ArticleID=592401
SummaryTitle=Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 3.0
publish-date=11302010
author1-email=sanchez.enjuto@es.ibm.com
author1-email-cc=
author2-email=antillji@ie.ibm.com
author2-email-cc=
author3-email=CAMPIONR@ie.ibm.com
author3-email-cc=
author4-email=lorenzo.notarfonzo@ie.ibm.com
author4-email-cc=

My developerWorks community

Try IBM PureSystems. No charge.