IBM Content Navigator, Version 2.0.3 Supports: Content Manager, FileNet P8, OnDemand, OASIS CMIS

Customizing portal desktops

You can create a custom portal desktop by making a copy of the default portal desktop and changing the desktop properties. You can create different custom portal desktops for different users, and then you can connect different desktops to different IBM® Content Navigator Web Parts on your Microsoft SharePoint server.

About this task

The default portal desktop is created when you load the portal plug-in. You can copy and customize one or more portal desktops and change the authentication repository, available repositories, layout, or other desktop features.

Remember: Before you select the desktop's default repository and available repositories, you must add the repositories by using the administration tool so that the repository names are displayed for selection. The repositories that you select must support the features that you want to make available on the desktop. In addition, any optional features that you want to support, such as teamspaces, must be enabled on the repositories.

Restriction: The total number of repositories that you can connect to is limited to 400 repositories per IBM Content Navigator server, regardless of type. If you connect to more than 400 repositories, you might experience performance issues when you view and select multiple repositories for administration tasks.

Procedure

To copy and customize a portal desktop:

Open the administration tool in the web client and click Desktops.
Select Portal Desktop from the list and click Copy.
On the Desktop: New Desktop window, specify a name for your customized portal desktop. An ID is generated based on the name. The ID must be unique, and you cannot change the ID after you save the desktop.
Change the authentication repository, available repositories, layout, or other desktop features, as needed.
Save your changes.

What to do next

You can use the custom portal desktop either by default, or by overriding the default portal desktop.

To use the custom portal desktop by default, specify the desktop ID of the custom portal desktop when you install IBM Content Navigator Web Parts on your Microsoft SharePoint server.
To use the custom portal desktop by overriding the default portal desktop, specify the desktop ID of the custom portal desktop as the desktop parameter in the Web Part URL on a specific Microsoft SharePoint page.