Converting portlet instances and settings from the IBM API to the standard API

The portal provides a portlet conversion task that allows you to convert the settings and instances of IBM API portlets to the corresponding standard API portlets. This is useful when you intend to replace IBM API portlets by standard API portlets.

About this task

You can use this task as follows: The portlet conversion task converts portlet settings of the IBM API portlet to portlet preferences of the standard API portlet. It also converts instances of the IBM API portlet to instances of the standard API portlet. User customized portlet data that is associated with the portlet instance is converted into standard API portlet preferences.

To convert the instances and settings of an IBM API portlet to a standard API portlet, proceed by the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Install the standard API portlet by which you want to replace the IBM API portlet.
  2. Create a portlet conversion properties file that identifies both the IBM API portlet and the standard API portlet. To do this, create or update the following file: 
    was_profile_root/ConfigEngine/properties/portletconversion.properties
    Confirm that the following parameters are set as specified or modify them if necessary:
    For the IBM API portlet:
    ibmwebapp.uid
    The uid of the Web application that contains the IBM API portlet. This property is required.
    Parameters for identifying the IBM API portlet:
    To identify the IBM API portlet, specify one of the following three parameters: the portlet name, the object ID, or the unique name of the IBM API portlet:
    ibmportlet.portletname
    The portlet name of the IBM API portlet.
    ibmportlet.uniquename
    The unique name of the IBM API portlet.
    ibmportlet.objectid
    The object ID of the IBM API portlet.
    For the standard portlet:
    jsrwebapp.uid
    The uid of the web application that contains the standard API portlet. This property is required.
    Parameters for identifying the standard API portlet:
    To identify the standard API portlet, specify one of the following three parameters: the portlet name, the object ID, or the unique name of the standard API portlet:
    jsrportlet.portletname
    The portlet name of the standard API portlet.
    jsrportlet.uniquename
    The unique name of the standard API portlet.
    jsrportlet.objectid
    The object ID of the standard API portlet.
    Additional parameters:
    pages.uniquename
    This parameter is optional. Specify a comma separated list of unique names of pages. If you specify this parameter, only portlets on these pages and their descendants are converted. If you leave this parameter empty or missing, instances of IBM API portlets on all pages are converted.
    converter
    The name of a converter class that is invoked by the porltetconversion task and that performs the conversion of portlet settings and portlet data. The converter class must implement the interface com.ibm.portal.portletconversion.Converter. You can specify the default converter com.ibm.wps.pe.task.DefaultConverter here. This converter performs basic conversion by filtering out portlet data items whose type is not String.
    converter.classpath
    Semicolon separated list of files and folders that are added to the classpath in order to load the converter class.
    xmlaccess.url
    The URL to the portal XML configuration interface servlet. You can use this parameter to run conversions for specific virtual portals. If this parameter is empty or missing, the default portal is used to run the conversion.
  3. Change to the directory was_profile_root/PortalServer/ConfigEngine/.
  4. Run the portlet conversion task ConfigEngine convert-portlets .
  5. Verify the conversion by reviewing the console. The message Build successful indicates a successful conversion. If the message Build failed is displayed upon completion of the task, review the previous steps.
  6. After successful conversion you can uninstall the IBM API portlet.

Example

Examples of portletconversion.properties files:
ibmportlet.objectid=3_O4C9FI930GPE90IGU02QAR0006
jsrportlet.objectid=3_O4C9FI930GPE90IGU02QAR00G3
ibmwebapp.uid=DCE:472fb1b0-3d22-1211-0000-005da8cf7ayz:2
jsrwebapp.uid=StdPortletDataTestPortlet.war.webmod
converter=com.ibm.wps.pe.task.DefaultConverter
ibmportlet.portletname=An PortletData test portlet
jsrportlet.portletname=StdPortletDataTestPortlet
ibmwebapp.uid=DCE:472fb1b0-3d22-1211-0000-005da8cf7ayz:2
jsrwebapp.uid=StdPortletDataTestPortlet.war.webmod
converter=com.ibm.wps.pe.task.DefaultConverter