One of the recommended best practices is to separate the WCM content from the design. This post illustrates the difference between the content and the design, and includes a sample (on Portal 6.1.0.1) to show how to implement this best practice.

Allowing WebSphere Portal Search to crawl WCM content is a powerful way to provide search functionality to your WCM site. The following information can be used to leverage that relationship: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/wcm-search/ ...

Abstract: This document describes how to manually restore the wps.ear application in the event it is accidentally uninstalledremoved. Warning! These instructions are only intended to be used as a workaround to restore wps.ear and require that you have either a backup of the Portal environment ...

This resource page is for administrators responsible for installing, migrating, maintaining, configuring, or the daytoday operations of WebSphere Portal. You will find demonstrations, product documentation, education offerings, and more.

WebSphere Personalization (PZN) uses many different types of caching. There are three main different types of caching, Internal Cache, Resource Domain, Visibility Rule Caching. Internal cache, resource domain are covered in the Best Practices for using Personalization ( ...

Designers and developers for Lotus Web Content Management 6.0. will find technical resources, including demonstrations, product documentation, and education offerings, to help them as the develop for and extend Lotus Web Content Managment.

Resource pages are specialized by role and help you find technical resources, including demonstrations, product documentation, and education offerings. This page is for administrators responsible for installing, migrating, configuring, or daytoday operations of Lotus Web Content ...

Summary: This document provides an example of how WCM administrators can create a servlet filter to intercept an HTTP request / response and redirect users to custom pages based on the status. A filter will allow you to intercept requests and perform some processing prior to the request reaching ...

When obtaining the Web Content Management API Workspace for the ‘System’ or users other than the current user, you should cache the ‘Workspace’ in the session to improve performance. Creating a works

How to configure the DynamicMapper sample to pull categories based on group membership ==Introduction== Out of the box, WCM allows you to map categories within WCM to user profile objects. This is useful for WCM Profiling, so that you can profile WCM objects to a user based on the categories that ...

A large file is considered to be 100MB per resource and cumulatively up to 300MB per piece of content. If you want to store large files for use within your Web Content Management system, you will need to tune your databases and other systems to support the use of large files. This topic lists ...

Document Purpose This article is designed to assist a consultant in defining a WCM workshop agenda to discuss the requirements for designing a web site and the implementation of an infrastructure to support that web site. It provides examples of issues and questions that should be considered ...

Scenario 2: Adding a new site area This scenario covers the simple example of adding a new site area to a live site. It will be hidden by using security settings until it is ready to go live. In this

Scenario 1: Site re-brand with minimal content changes This scenario covers an example of a site re-brand. This is when just the look of the site changes with the content remaining mostly the same. Th

Learn about the different caching strategies that can improve performance of IBM® Lotus® Web Content Management. The PDF also includes examples and other reference material. Lotus Web Content Management Caching and Performance Tuning presentation

To realize the benefits of integrating applications or collaboration into a comprehensive portal solution, you need to ensure effective and rapid deployment and implementation. The best way to achieve this success is to ensure that your deployment team is equipped with the right skills. To gain ...

This article will give you step by step instructions to enable the correct date format for WCM.

There are a number of aspects to consider when performing UAT of a migrated WCM environment. This document outlines these areas and provides guidelines for customers to design their own checklist of items for UAT of their migrated WCM environment. Portal Migration Ensure you have verified the ...

This scenario covers the example of upgrading a WCM system from the previous version of 5.1. The process of upgrading a system involves setting up a new 6 or 6.1 system and configuring it to be the s

If you have a Domino Mail server and Domino Web Access Templates for users, it could be interesting to present to the user an indicator of unread emails. This code works for the moment only on IE. Something as below : To do that easily, I have used the XML representation of DWA. You can obtain ...

Checklist for optimum performance of WCM 6.0 and 6.1. This document contains a checklist of the key tasks required for tuning an existing Lotus Web Content Management environment. It assumes adequate hardware and infrastructure is provided and does not cover capacity planning. It also does not go ...

API Best Practices Always use the wcm:initworkspace tag to obtain the Web Content Management API workspace for the current user, as the initworkspace tag will automatically cache the users workspace in the session which improves performance and, when using the Local Rendering Portlet (LRP), ...

Web Content Management is only one component of WebSphere Portal. Web Content Management migration may be only one part of the migration of your WebSphere Portal system, along with custom applications. This article provides useful strategies for limiting the complexity of the migration and ...

Authoring content: Content creators use the delivery server to create new content: 1. They logon to the intranet. 2. They use the authoring tools to either create new content, or edit

Get the Current Selected Page public static ObjectID getCurrentPage(PortletRequest request, PortletResponse response) throws StateException, NamingException, IOExcepti