IBM Connections

IBM® Connections portlets give the IBM WebSphere® Portal users access to more collaboration and social networking features such as activities, blogs, and bookmarks.

Prerequisites: IBM Connections: Installing IBM Connections

Configuring Portal to work with IBM Connections
For WebSphere Portal to work with IBM Connections you must configure the portal Ajax proxy, and set up single sign-on.
Configure WebSphere Portal to work with Connections
Integrate the power of IBM Connections social business with IBM WebSphere Portal application.
Import SSL certificate to set up trust association
To prevent security alert pop-up windows, add Connections certificates to your portal server. The signer certificate that is used by the Connections server must be trusted by the portal server. The instructions for deploying the IBM Connections portlets include a procedure to import the SSL certificate. If you did not complete that procedure, you must import the certificate to use community pages. For best results, follow the procedures that are provided in the IBM Connections documentation.
Configuring IBM Connections features
Configure the features that site visitors need to use from your portal site.
Configuring community pages
Configure how you want community pages access to work in your portal site. For example you can configure community pages to automatically grant access to the page, how many child pages affected by community associations, and more.
Configuring Portal to work with Connections in SmartCloud for Social Business
The Connections integration assets that are used to integrate WebSphere Portal with on-premise Connections can be used to integrate WebSphere Portal with IBM Connections in SmartCloud for Social Business as well.

Parent topic: Configuring