Customizing Lotus Connections Table of Contents

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Rebrand and Customize Lotus Connections & Integrate 3rd Party Solutions into Lotus Connections

1 Lotus Connections

1.1 Rebranding -- skinning and theming
1.2 Customizing banner/footer, adding logo
1.3 Adding tab to navigator
1.4 Introduce the idea of creating a new UI (major task)

2 Homepage

2.1 Adding widgets
2.2 Developing widgets for home page and / or profiles(major task)
2.3 Adding a tab to the Lotus Connections Homepage

3 TDI

3.1 Documentation of the included assemblies lines
3.2 Using multiple sources for data (Domino, AD, etc)

4 Profiles

4.1 Sametime integration
4.2 Adding custom fields
4.3 Populating custom fields with TDI
4.4 Display custom fields and using profile types
4.5 Adding widgets

5 Person card

5.1 Displaying custom fields
5.2 Adding links
5.3 Adding additional actions
5.4 Integrating into existing Web/rich-client apps

6 Dogear

6.1 How to add a "dogear this" button
6.2 How to add a dynamic list of links to existing pages

7 Blogs

7.1 Blogging offline
7.2 Rich client blogging
7.3 Customizing blog template
7.4 Using an outside editor

8 Activities

8.1 Creating Activities entry type
8.2 Creating/importing templates
8.3 Leveraging the activities Quickr Linkr
8.4 File management

9 Communities

9.1 Wiki integration
9.2 LDAP group: group or community membership as ACLs

Integrate Lotus Connections into 3rd Party Solutions and Platforms

10 Using the API

10.1 Person card (alone or with the other five services)
10.2 LC services integration

11 MS SharePoint

12 WebSphere Portal Server

12.1 WebSphere portlet factory
12.2 WebAppIntegrator

13 IBM Mashup Center

13.1 Lotus Widget factory

14 Notes R8 Sidebar

15 Notes R8 composite application

16 L otus Connections plug-ins for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office, and Windows Explorer

17 Sametime

17.1 Lotus Connections plug-in for Sametime

18 Microsoft Outlook

19 RIM Blackberry client for IBM Lotus Connections