![Close [x]](http://dw1.s81c.com/i/c.gif){kind=small}
This article is for portal specialists, architects, and consultants who need to understand how to use the personalization support in WebSphere Portal V6. You walk through detailed examples of rule driven personalization involving Web Content Management and Portal Document Manager. You also see how to create and use rules for attribute based administration. Finally, you get a variety of portal personalization hints and tips to help you quickly be more productive with the new V6 features.
- Differentiating rule types
- Using personalization with Web Content Management
- Using personalization with Portal Document Manager
- Attribute based administration
- Hints and tips
IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6 supports various approaches to personalization ranging from basic, less flexible support to advanced, powerful functionality. For example, a basic form of personalization is to provide view access to a set of pages, portlets, documents, and Web content to a group of users. A member of one group logs into a portal and sees only those portlets, pages, documents, and Web content that the group is allowed to see; users in a different group could access a completely different set of portal resources.
This article concentrates on a more advanced capability, rules based personalization, which is a form of a push personalization. A business user writes business rules for particular pages and portlets. Those rules select content based on the attributes of the current portal visitor. For example, a Gold customer of an insurance company sees information about services relevant to Gold customers, while a non-Gold customer sees different information on the same page within the same portlet.
Rule driven personalization is not a new concept in WebSphere Portal, but some major functional improvements have been made in WebSphere Portal 6 and the integrated Web Content Management (WCM), as well as in Portal Document Management (PDM). This article provides an overview of those improvements and a comprehensive "how-to" on rule-based personalization options.
| Description | Name | Size | Download method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article in PDF format | 0610_schoeffing-WPV6Personalization.pdf | 1.5 MB | HTTP |
Information about download methods Get Adobe® Reader®
Larissa Schoeffing is an IT Specialist at IBM Software Group. She has experience with WebSphere Portal and Workplace Web Content Management since the very first versions of these products. Her main focus is on portal infrastructure and application development. She has worked with many customers and business partners assisting them in implementing scalable and highly personalized portals. Larissa has conducted lectures at several conferences and published IBM internal and external papers on these topics. Larissa holds an engineer degree from the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart, Germany.
Rene Auberger is working as a Software IT Architect for the IBM Software Group. He is primarily working with customers from the public sector in Germany, a clientele that is strongly interested in Linux. In 1996 Rene started working with Linux and has used it ever since in various flavors and for different purposes. He is the technical leader of the Linux specialty within the Software Group in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and can be reached at rene.auberger@de.ibm.com.
