Deploying a Lotus Workforce Management portlet is the last step in creating self-service accelerator portlets. This demonstration shows you how to deploy a Lotus Workforce Management portlet to IBM WebSphere Portal.
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Deploying a Lotus Workforce Management portlet is the third, and last, step in working with the Lotus Workforce Management 6.1 feature set. Deploying a portlet involves building a Web Archive (WAR) file in the IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory development environment and deploying and installing the WAR in IBM WebSphere Portal.
A Web Archive (WAR) file is a package that contains the portlet application. The WAR file holds all the models that contain the builder calls you created during the portlet development phase.
When you select
Build Portlet WAR, your portlet is automatically deployed to WebSphere Portal. When you select
Build Portlet WAR for production deployment, your portlet is built on your local drive. You can then either manually deploy the WAR to WebSphere Portal or provide the WAR to your site administrator.
After you log in to WebSphere Portal, locate the WAR file to verify that you deployed it successfully.
Now that the WAR is deployed to WebSphere Portal, you need to install the portlet on a portal page. In this demonstration, you create a portal page called
Address and install the portlet on this page.
Enter a title for the portal page and specify any other properties, such as a unique name to help you easily identify the page. After clicking OK, you can see the
Address page is added to
Home.
The next step is to install the portlet on the
Address page. After you complete the steps to install the portlet, a blue informational message displays at the top of the
Edit Layout page when the portlet is added successfully.
Now that you have added a page and installed the portlet, navigate to the
Home page and take a look at the finished portlet.
Because you added the
Address page to
Home, employees can view the portal page as a tab in
Home after logging in. The finished portlet displays on the portal page.
The fields that you specified during design time display as columns in the portlet. The personnel numbers in the first column are highlighted. This highlight occurs because you set the personnel number as the link to the details page during design time.
Using this portlet employees can click their personnel number to view their address details as they are recorded in your company's SAP system. Employees can click
Edit to modify their personal information to record any changes.
For example, in this demonstration the example user, D. Naro, has moved from Memphis, TN to New York, NY. D. Naro can update his address information by changing the street address, city name, ZIP code, and state records. After clicking
Submit, D. Naro's information is updated directly in the SAP system.