This section provides you with a step by step instructions to add third-party links to the Profiles business card by editing the Lotus Connections configuration file.
The following paragraphs provide you with an overview on how to add a third-party link to the business card:
- Specify the links in the LotusConnections-config.xml located at: <WAS_HOME
\profiles\<WAS_Profile
\config\cells\<Host_name
\LotusConnections-config\LotusConnections-config.xml
- Define the service names by editing service-location.xsd file located at: <WAS_HOME
\profiles\<WAS_Profile
\config\cells\<Host_name
\LotusConnections-config\service-location.xsd
- Save and close both files
Once you follow these instructions, you can integrate Lotus Connections business cards with any applications that render the person card. For example, Atlas for Lotus Connections Confluence, SocialText, Quickr, Microsoft Sharepoint, SAP Portal, WebSphere Portal, etc.
In this section, we will show you how to add the links to Atlas for Lotus Connections and Google.
First, you need to add the links to Atlas and Google to LotusConnections-config.xml as described in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Adding links to Atlas and Google
<sloc:serviceReference serviceName="atlas"
href="http://atlas.tap.watson.ibm.com" enabled="true"
ssl_href="http://atlas.tap.ibm.com" ssl_enabled="false"
person_card_service_url_pattern="/reach.do?reachUser={email}"
person_card_service_name_js_eval="'Reach Me'"/
<sloc:serviceReference serviceName="googleService"
href="http://www.google.com" enabled="true"
ssl_href="http://www.google.com" ssl_enabled="false"
person_card_service_url_pattern="/search?hl=en&q={fn}&btnG=Google+Search"
person_card_service_name_js_eval="'Google Me'"/
Next, add the following lines (highlighted in bold) in service-location.xsd as described in Listing 2.
Listing 2. Define the service names for Atlas and Google
<xsd:simpleType name="serviceNames"
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"
<xsd:enumeration value="activities" /
<xsd:enumeration value="blogs" /
<xsd:enumeration value="communities" /
<xsd:enumeration value="directory" /
<xsd:enumeration value="dogear" /
<xsd:enumeration value="personTag" /
<xsd:enumeration value="presenceAwareness" /
<xsd:enumeration value="profiles" /
<xsd:enumeration value="sametimeLinks" /
<xsd:enumeration value="homepage" /
<xsd:enumeration value="quickr" /
<xsd:enumeration value="atlas" /
<xsd:enumeration value="googleService" /
</xsd:restriction
</xsd:simpleType
The final step is to restart the Profiles server and you can see that the third party links have been added as displayed in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Business card with links to Atlas and Google
Assuming that you have Atlas for Lotus Connections implemented in your organization, you will see various recommended social paths to reach Frank Adams as illustrated in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Reach Me
If you click on the Google Me tab, it will open a Google page and enter the name of the business card owner as a Google search parameter as displayed in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Google Me
