Configure settings in the profiles-config.xml file
to specify the character set encoding options used to export vCards.
Before you begin
To use administrative commands, you must use the IBM® WebSphere® Application
Server wsadmin client. See Starting
the wsadmin client for details.
About this task
Profiles users can export vCards from people's profiles
and then import the profiles into their email client as contacts.
You can configure the profiles-config.xml file
to specify the encoding options that are available when exporting
vCards from Profiles and determine which options are most appropriate
for your users.Procedure
To configure the vCard export application, complete the
following steps.
- Start the wsadmin client from the following
directory of the system on which you installed the Deployment Manager:
app_server_root\profiles\dm_profile_root\bin
where app_server_root is
the WebSphere Application
Server installation directory and dm_profile_root is
the Deployment Manager profile directory, typically dmgr01.You
must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that
you enter do not execute correctly.
- Start the Profiles Jython script interpreter.
- Enter the following command
to access the Profiles configuration files:
execfile("profilesAdmin.py")
If
prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first
node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command
writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path,
you must pick the node where the file is stored.
- Enter the following command
to check out the Profiles configuration files:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory",
"cell_name" where:- working_directory is the temporary working directory to which the
configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use
forward slashes (/) to separate directories in the file path, regardless of your operating
system.
Note: In order for the command to complete successfully, the directory must
grant write permissions if you are using one of the following operating systems:
- cell_name is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell hosting
the Profiles application. This argument is required. It is also case-sensitive.
If you do not know the cell name, you can determine it by typing the
following command in the wsadmin command processor:
print
AdminControl.getCell()
For example:- AIX or Linux:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")
- Microsoft
Windows:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")
- IBM
i
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("/temp","foo01Cell01")
- Open the Profiles configuration file, profiles-config.xml,
using a text editor and locate the following <vcardExport> section:
<vcardExport>
<charset name="UTF-8">
<label key="label.vcard.encoding.utf8"/>
</charset>
<charset name="ISO-8859-1">
<label key="label.vcard.encoding.iso88591"/>
</charset>
<charset name="Cp943c">
<label key="label.vcard.encoding.cp943c"/>
</charset>
</vcardExport>
- To provide an export encoding that is specific to your
language, include the following lines of code within the <vcardExport> tags:
<charset name="character_encoding">
<label key="ui_label"/>
</charset>
where:- character_encoding is the name of the character
encoding to export.
- ui_label is the label for the character encoding
in the user interface.
For example, to add an export setting for Arabic,
include the following element:<vcardExport>
...
<charset name="Windows-1256">
<label key="label.vcard.encoding.windows.arabic"/>
</charset>
</vcardExport>
The following character set encoding options work best:Table 1. Export character set encodingsCharacter encoding |
Description |
Windows-1250 |
Central European languages that use Latin script
(Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Romanian,
and Albanian) |
Windows-1251 |
Cyrillic alphabets |
Windows-1252 |
Western languages |
Windows-1253 |
Greek |
Windows-1254 |
Turkish |
Windows-1255 |
Hebrew |
Windows-1256 |
Arabic |
Windows-1257 |
Baltic languages |
Windows-1258 |
Vietnamese |
gb2312 |
Chinese |
gb18030 |
Chinese |
Complete this step for every language for which you require
encoding support. There is no limit to the number of character set
encodings that you can specify.
- After making changes, check the configuration files back
in during the same wsadmin session in which you checked them out.
See Applying property changes in Profiles for information
about how to save and apply your changes.