Got word the other day that Luis Benitez wont be able to join me on stage at Lotusphere 2012 due to a conflicting session. So much for planning. So if all you were hoping for to see at our my session was Luis then I have to disappoint you. I will still be there though doing my out most to teach you about widget development for IBM Connections so be sure you mark your calendar for BP207 🙂
See you there!
Just on the heels of the Lotus Sametime for iOS / Android release comes the release of Microsoft Lync for iPad and iPhone that is a chat client for Microsofts on-premises and cloud based chat solution. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft too is using push-notifications for out-of-app chat notification to save on battery. One of the nice things about the announcement is to see how Microsoft chose to have their mobile solution work with their cloud based offering right away – something Lotus has failed to do with Sametime on LotusLive (still looking for an announcement as to when LotusLive will support the iOS apps). More on the apps at winsupersite.com.
Now The mail database created using this template wont be facing any issue of archiving the contacts documents as field “ProtectFromArchive” will prevent contact docs to get archived. Please note that an agent needs to process existing contacts to protect them as well.
A while back I saw the new
IBM Connections 3.0.1 Files Plug-in for Lotus Notes from Mac Guidera’s blog. I didn’t blog it because it didn’t work with LotusLive Engage but since updates was just done to LotusLive it may work now. Must try.
Just received word from the track manager of the Best Practices track that the session I’m doing with Luis Benitez on iWidget development is BP207 so mark your schedule now! Looking forward to seeing you there.
Saw this very nice – although very technincal – whitepaper on developerWorks on how Notes 8.5.3 has been optimized to reduce the number of transactions with the Domino server. A small little thing that I haven’t seen mentioned before but which can have a big impact on your environment and users. Probably shouldn’t be considered light reading.
“IBM Lotus® Domino® 8.5.3 and IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 have been optimized to reduce the transactions from the client to the server. These optimizations yield a reduction in server resources, thus lowering the Total Cost of Ownership. This white paper shows the reductions in processor and disk utilization achieved with large numbers of Notes 8.5.3 clients running on a single Domino 8.5.3 server.”
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server performance: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 performance
As part of IBM Connections you will find a big REST API that allows you to work with almost every part of Connections such as searching for profiles, managing files and working with communities. As part of our new product (see my previous post) I’m doing a lot with this API. Right now one of my favorite wiki documents is “Searching Profiles programmatically“.
When installing Connections on Windows 2008 Server 64 bit the profile management tool doesn’t work so profile creation is done using manageprofiles.bat/sh. The syntax is hard to remember so here it is for future reference.
Deployment manager:
c:ibmwebsphereappserverbinmanageprofiles.bat -create -templatePath ..profileTemplatesmanagement -profileName dmgr -profilePath d:wasprofilesdmgr -cellName LCCell01 -nodeName dmgrNode -serverType DEPLOYMENT_MANAGER
Application server:
c:ibmwebsphereappserverbinmanageprofiles.bat -create -templatePath ..profileTemplatesdefault -profileName AppSrv01 -profilePath d:wasprofilesappsrv01 -nodeName appNode01
As part of the OnTime Group Calendar we’re building a series of widgets for IBM Connections to allow easier collaboration – the more we collaborate the more we need access to accurate, updated, calendar data. This puts OnTime Group Calendar smack in the middle of the move to social business. We are getting ready to release the widgets as part of the product and we have the first demo ready.
The integration into the Profiles feature is easily understandable and shows the calendar of the user right there on the profile page as shown on the right. Click the image to see a larger version.
However the real power lies in the integration into communities. Here we bring the calendar of community members into the community is a text list UI and a full graphical viewer based UI as in the rest of our clients. For communities we are also offering a Social Scheduling widget to allow you to find available meeting times and book meetings with community members plus people you may only know based on tags (keywords) or location. Very powerful and possible due to the API offered for OnTime Group Calendar.
(click the image for a larger version)
Please note that everywhere the access to calendar data is only available if the querying user has sufficient access.
The demo below outlines how OnTime Group Calendar for Social Business brings calendar data into IBM Connections in the Profiles feature and in the Communities feature.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TLNMcaFDp0&w=420&h=315]
All videos are available on the ontimesuite YouTube channel.
An excellent and a bit overdue addition to IBM Connections is better control over backup of communities. We’re not talking fine grained control and integration with e.g. Tivoli Storage Manager but rather backup to and restore from ZIP-files. The asset has been added to the Greenhouse catalog and is described in the New backup & restore tool for IBM Connections Communities post on the Synch.rono.us blog.