Working with lists of social objects

You can design lists of social objects in different ways that are related to their content, visual design, and other characteristics. You can also use the IBM® WebSphere® Portal Tag Cloud portlet in combination with your lists of social objects, so that your site visitors can navigate social data based on tags. These tasks are usually done by page editors.

About this task

  • Concept of the lists of social objects provided with the social rendering feature
    The social rendering feature provides you with a set of predefined lists view definitions and a detail view definition for forum topic details.
  • Using the view definitions provided with social rendering on your portal pages
    The social rendering feature provides you with a set of predefined view definitions. You can add them to the pages of your WebSphere Portal and modify them according to your requirements. For example, you can define which types of social objects are listed, how they are filtered, sorted, and presented. These tasks are done by a page editor.
  • Using social lists with your own custom theme
    The social lists that social rendering provides work with portal pages that have the Portal 8.5 theme with a Basic Content theme profile. To use them with your own custom theme, you add the wp_social_rendering_85 theme module to your theme.
  • Configuring a page with lists of social objects for Tag Cloud support
    Learn how to enable Tag Cloud portlet support on your portal page. You can enable Tag Cloud support if you are using a default portal theme profile or a custom portal theme profile.
  • Using the portal Tag Cloud with lists of social objects
    To get the most benefit from social rendering together with tagging, you can put the WebSphere Portal Tag Cloud portlet on pages that contain social lists. This way your site visitors can reduce the contents of social lists by selecting individual tags from the tag cloud. The list of social objects is then restricted to content items that are tagged with the tag or tags that the user selected.
Parent topic: Social rendering
Related tasks:
Integrating with IBM Connections
Enabling remote rendering with WSRP and the Web Content Viewer