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• Implementing a clean URL in IBM WebSphere Portal 8-based WCM rendering

  This article showcases the new feature in version 8 of IBM WebSphere Portal / IBM Web Content Manager (WCM) with which you can implement a clean-navigation, stateless URL in Portal-based WCM delivery.

• Configuring IBM WebSphere Portal v8.0 on z/OS

  This white paper explains the steps for several common configurations of WebSphere Portal v8.0 z/OS, including configuring WebSphere z/OS via zPMT and via the ISPF panels.

• Custom NoSkin skin with portlet action menu for an IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.0.2 theme

  By default the IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.0.2 NoSkin skin has no title bar. This means it also does not have a portlet action menu, which can make it difficult to configure the portlet when the page is switched to edit mode. This article presents a custom NoSkin, called NoSkinPlus, that displays nothing in view mode but shows a title bar super-imposed on the portlet in edit mode.

• Performance tuning guide: IBM WebSphere Portal Express 8 on IBM i V7R1

  This white paper discusses performance tuning recommendations that are specific to running IBM WebSphere Portal on the IBM i platform, focusing on the WebSphere Portal Express 8.0 and IBM i (i5/OS) V7R1 / V7R1M1 profile and platform versions.

• Building a PDF-generator portlet using IBM Web Experience Factory

  Learn how to build an IBM Web Experience Factory portlet that creates PDF files on the fly, using XSL files (*.fo) and the Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) library. In our builder, XSL-FO syntaxes are extended with custom XML elements that allow us to add dynamic behavior during the generation of the PDF.

• Managing the ReleaseBuilder deployment process for IBM WebSphere Portal

  This white paper describes a bestpractice process and the steps therein that are required to manage a deployment process that depends on ReleaseBuilder.

• Creating a custom IBM WebSphere Portal portlet to search across IBM Web Content Manager, Connections, and Lotus Quickr

  This article shows you how to create a custom search portlet in IBM WebSphere Portal that searches IBM Web Content Manager, IBM Connections, and IBM Lotus Quickr using REST APIs.

• Implement responsive web design using WebSphere Portal, Part 1: Get started with the default theme

  Use responsive design techniques to optimize your WebSphere Portal user interface for multiple devices within a single theme. This article discusses how to transform your WebSphere Portal theme into a responsive web experience from the ground up.

• Administering IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0: A comprehensive workshop

  The goal of this white paper is to explain the various administration and configuration tools offered by IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0. Learn about which tool to use for which task and about the new capabilities.

• IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator 8 Product Documentation

  The new release of IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator extends the capabilities of the IBM WebSphere Portal product to mobile devices. Version 8 includes support for IBM Web Content Manager attribute based personalization, conversion of Web Content Manager rich text to XDIME format, and support for IBM WebSphere Portal version 8.

• Troubleshooting incremental crawling within IBM Web Content Manager search

  This document discusses basic hints and methods to debug and troubleshoot performance issues with incremental crawling within IBM Web Content Manager search, including recommendations and options to maintain and/or improve performance during incremental crawling.

• Achieving Dojo loading optimization across various IBM WebSphere Portal themes

  Learn how to achieve Dojo loading optimization across various IBM WebSphere Portal themes to improve performance of Portal applications

• Migrating an IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 database to WebSphere Portal 8.0 using the IBM DB2 Database Administration Tool v7.2 for z/OS

  This white paper explains the steps required to migrate an IBM WebSphere Portal v6.1 database to WebSphere Portal v8, using the IBM DB2 Administration Tool (DAT) v7.2 for DB2 Universal Database on z/OS

• Customizing your IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.0.2 Web experience using the new theme framework

  This detailed, step-by-step guide explains how to customize your IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.0.2 Web experience by using the new modularized theme framework.

• IBM WebSphere Portal performance planning, testing, and bottleneck analysis

  This purpose of this article is to detail the high-level steps involved in testing IBM WebSphere Portal performance and resolving performance bottlenecks in a simple and straightforward way.

• Migrating multiple-cluster IBM WebSphere Application Server from v7.0 to v8.0 and Portal Server from v6.1 to v8.0 on z/OS with 24x7 availability

  Learn how to use the IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) migration framework to quickly and easily move WAS and WPS on z/OS from WPS v6.1.5 on WAS v7.0 to WPS 8.0 on WAS v8.0

• Integrating the Web Application Bridge (WAB) with IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0: A step-by-step guide

  This article describes a comprehensive procedure for integrating the IBM Web Application Bridge(WAB)with IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0, including understanding, installing, and configuring WAB with WebSphere Portal 8.0.

• Tuning IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager for best anonymous page performance

  IBM WebSphere Portal with or without IBM Web Content Manager, performs well only with effective caching. There are multiple levels and types of caching within Portal/WCM.

• A new generation of Configuration Wizard in IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0

  This white paper introduces the new Configuration Wizard in IBM WebSphere Portal v8.0 that functions as a Web Wizard deployed on an IBM WebSphere Application Server console, provides a Web interface for users to run a single ConfigEngine task directly, and compiles multiple tasks into workflows

• Event-based inter-portlet communication with IBM WebSphere Portal and JSR286

  This article illustrates how to combine a Java portlet and IBM WebSphere Portal event processing to be used to achieve navigation in a portlet-based Web application, as well as information passing. The sample application is built with IBM Rational® Application Developer (RAD) for WebSphere v8.0.4.

• Customizing your IBM WebSphere Portal Web Experience using Page Builder: A step-by-step guide

  Learn how to customize your Web experience using the Page Builder framework within IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.0.1

• Deploying and developing IBM WebSphere Portal 8 themes: A step-by-step guide

  WebSphere Portal 8 again offers deployment and development as a single EAR file. This article details the instructions to maintain your theme, using IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD), and deploy it as a single EAR file.

• Implementing event-driven GUI patterns using the ZK Java AJAX framework

  This white paper explores three event-driven graphical user interface (GUI) patterns using the ZK Java AJAX framework; specifically, "Passive View," "Supervising Controller" and "Presentation Model

• Integrating IBM WebSphere Portal 7 with LDAP: Overview and standalone configuration

  This step-by-step guide explains how to integrate IBM WebSphere Portal 7 with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and to configure the standalone LDAP configuration with WebSphere Portal.

• Migrating Web content from the Vignette Content Management System to IBM Web Content Manager

  This article describes a process to migrate the core content from the Vignette Content Management System to IBM Web Content ManagerTM (WCM).

• An approach to online backup using BRMS: IBM WebSphere Portal Express 7.0.0.1 on IBM i V7R1

  Learn how to perform a full backup of a portal profile while it is online and functional, using the Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for the IBM i operating system (IBM i)

• Trial download: WebSphere Portal Express V8

  WebSphere Portal Express V8 offers application integration, document management, web content management, and collaboration capabilities in a single, easy-to-deploy solution targeted at small and medium business.

• IBM WebSphere Portal V8.0 delivers new capabilities for integrated social, contextual, and optimized multichannel online experiences

  WebSphere Portal V8.0 brings together essential web experience capabilities that can help you deliver targeted content that is relevant and compelling to each user.

• Improving IBM Web Content Manager Personalization rule performance using Include Only

  When rules are created to retrieve IBM Web Content Manager (WCM) content from the repository, some of the rules can get rather complex and expensive.

• Basic guide for using IBM Web Experience Factory

  Learn how to use IBM Web Experience Factory 8; specifically, how to create a simple Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete (CRUD) portlet and how to add a filter to the portlet, using one or two input text or combo boxes

• Productizing an approved UI design into a functional UI in IBM WebSphere Portal 8

  This article addresses the situation in which the look and feel of an IBM WebSphere Portal page is designed by a User Interface (UI) design expert, and the actual productization of these styles are done by the another developer.

• Integrating IBM WebSphere Portal 7 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010

  IBM WebSphere Portal and Microsoft SharePoint are popular platforms that organizations adopt as their base platform for their portals, and organizations often want to integrate the two technologies.

• Understanding the IBM Eclipse HelpAdvisor Service in IBM WebSphere Portal Server

  IBM Eclipse HelpAdvisor Service (IEHS) is a customized portlet service in IBM WebSphere Portal Server. The service displays a Help topic in a pop-up window by using the Eclipse Help System Web Infocenter UI for JavaTM Specification Request (JSR) portlets. The topic is shown by use of the user's preferred locale from their WebSphere Portal user profile.

• IBM Web Experience Factory 8: A developer's perspective

  Understand the key concepts of the IBM Web Experience Factory 8 tool, key capabilities, and benefits over conventional portlet development tools, and learn how to leverage them in developing portlet applications.

• Methods for resetting IBM WebSphere Portal portlet views

  This article explains how to reset portlet views with multiple frameworks (Java Specification Request, IBM Web Content Manager, and JavaServer Faces), along with examining how the theme impacts the process and can be used to reset the state.

• What's new in WebSphere Portal V8

  Whether you're looking at IBM WebSphere Portal capabilities for the very first time or you're a longtime user, the latest release has something for you.

• IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 IIM / Launchpad / FirstSteps at a glance: Installing WebSphere Portal and Portal Express

  This article is aimed at first-time users of IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0, introducing some key functions and best practices, and briefly looks at IBM Installation Manager (IIM), WebSphere Portal 8.0 Launchpad

• IBM WebSphere Portal 7 customization scenario: Part 1, Customizing a menu portlet

  This article was written based on IBM WebSphere Portal (hereafter called “Portal”) 7, and the portlet was tested on Portal 7 Fix Pack 2. It will be useful for Portal implementers who need to customize Portal 7 features, using an API or Service Provider Interface (SPI) to suit customer requirements, including customizing menu displays, portlets display on a page, user registration and the user management module. To get the most from this article, you should have basic understanding of Portal configuration and JavaTM Portlet Specification (JSR) portlet development.

• Leveraging Reverse AJAX in IBM WebSphere Portal using Dojo CometD and Web messaging service

  The Reverse Asynchronous Java and XML (AJAX) technology enables dynamic content to be delivered to the browser, thus improving application performance by eliminating the need for constant polling. This technology can be used in many scenarios to deliver an excellent user experience.

• Creating a custom rendering plugin to display the average rating for an IBM Web Content Manager item

  Starting in IBM WebSphere Portal version 7, it's possible to allow users to rate and tag items, which includes IBM Web Content Manager (WCM) items. The product documentation topic, "Adding the inline rating widget to your portal content" provides the steps to enable rating for items within WebSphere Portal.

• Implementing AJAX with IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator

  The motivation behind writing this article is that I haven't been able to find much information on using Asynchronous JavaTMScript + XML (AJAX) with IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) 6.1.

• Using the Generate WCM Search URL portlet in WCM Support Tools

  In IBM WebSphere Portal / Web Content ManagerTM (WCM) v7, the content source for Portal Search is no longer automatically generated when a Site is made searchable. Since Sites are no longer part of WCM in v7, the content source for crawling WCM content must be manually created.

• Increasing the Search Engine Optimization ranking for IBM Web Content Manager Web sites

  This Article describes how to increase the Search Engine Optimization ranking for IBM Web Content Manager Web sites

• Using IBM Lotus troubleshooting tools: Electronic Service Request, Automated Data Collection, and IBM Support Assistant

  IBM Level 2 (L2) Support Teams are able to perform more effective and accurate triage and problem determination if detailed problem descriptions and a complete set of diagnostic data are provided when a PMR is opened. You can do this by following the best practices of using the IBM Electronic Service Request (SR), providing detailed problem descriptions, and using Automated Data Collection (ADC), to provide a complete set of diagnostic data.

• Performance management tools for IBM WebSphere Portal

  This article describes the tools and how they were used to evaluate an IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 performance and/or problem determination issue during a recent engagement at a customer site

• Enabling communication between IBM WebSphere Process Server and IBM WebSphere Portal via command line operations

  Learn how to enable SSO and generate LTPA tokens between IBM WebSphere Process Server and an IBM WebSphere Portal server in cross-cell mode; that is, via command line operations (silent mode). Included is a detailed example .zip file with python scripts.

• Customizing error pages in IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager applications in a multi-site environment

  Incorrect URL resources are handled and processed within the IBM WebSphere Application (WAS) security layer and, in order to allow a custom error page to display, you must modify the IBM WebSphere Portal configuration.

• Administering IBM WebSphere Portal: A comprehensive workshop

  The goal of this white paper is to explain the various administration and configuration tools offered by IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.