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1. Lotus Connections
The navigator at the top of each page contains links to the various feature application of Lotus Connections, such as Activites and Blogs. These links are generated based on the features that you have installed and configured in your Lotus Connections installation. If you want to add extra links, you can create a template that overrides the default list. With this template, you can add extra links that display both before and after the links already in the list.
The standard links shown in the following figure are generated by the default template that is included in each feature of Lotus Connections.
Lotus Connections standard navigator
You can create a default template using the code shown in the following example and place it somewhere that can be reached by all the servers on which Lotus Connections is installed. The best method to use is to serve the code from an http server such as IBM HTTP Server or Apache. Download the file called newNav.html attached to this page (right-click the file name and choose Save as). Insert the file into the content directory of your HTTP Server. Ensure that you can reach it in a browser, and take note of its address.
To use the template, you must include the URL of the new template in the LotusConnections-config.xml file. First, locate the LotusConnections-config.xml file on the server file system. It might be on multiple servers if your deployment is spread throughout multiple instances. To ensure that the change takes place on all servers that are running Lotus Connections, make sure that you change the LotusConnections-config.xml file on each server. Then, edit the section near the bottom of the file that begins with a style tag.
Style tag in the LotusConnections-config.xml file
The section marked header contains a URL property with the value admin_replace. Replace this value with the address for the new template. Then, simply restart each Lotus Connections application in WebSphere Application Server. You also need to clear the browser cache to ensure that the result displays. Using the template provided, you can find an extra link at the end of the navigator as shown in the following figure.
Modified navigator with an new link
It is very important to ensure that this procedure is done for each server on which a Lotus Connection feature is installed. If the steps are not done, then the link will not display when a user browses to that feature.
(Edited by DW)
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