Open Mic Webcast: "Connections Next - what to expect from the next version "

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IBM Connections. What's new in Connections Next !

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Manish KatariaTechnical Lead, Smartcloud

IBM Collaboration Solutions

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About Me

Manish Kataria -Tech Lead - SBT and Smartcloud [email protected]

Have been working with IBM in social collaboration domain. Worked extensively on IBM Connections integration with IBM Notes, Sametime, MS Outlook, IBM Portal, worked with customers in enabling to develop similar integrations.

Vinayak Tavargeri- Support Manager – Facilitator for AP Open [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


Abstract

The session would give an overview of social offering from IBM, IBM Connections.We cover various services platform offers and how you can use these to collaborate effectively and efficiently.

Session would also provide glimpses into some of the new features meant to bereleased in Connections 5.0 release.

Finally we would cover the details of technologies behind Connections and howyou can leverage these open development standards to infuse social capabilitiesinto your own day to day applications. We would also share some out of boxplugins developed by IBM for popular platforms like Notes and ST.


Agenda

1. General overview of Connections 2. Connections 5.0 features

External Collaboration Files Additional features

3. Introduction to SBT and building your own applications

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IBM Connections : OverviewHome pageSee what's happening across your social network

BlogsPresent your own ideas, and learn from others

CommunitiesWork with people who share common roles and expertise

FilesPost, share, and discover documents, presentations, images, and more

Micro-bloggingReach out for help your social network

ProfilesFind the people you need

WikisCreate web content together

ActivitiesOrganize your work and tap your professional network

BookmarksSave, share, and discover bookmarks

ForumsExchange ideas with, and benefit from the expertise of others


Ø provides a means for customers to bring external users into their Connections environment

Ø External users will see only content shared with them and only the people associated with that content

Ø Administrators can see who is an external user, can control who can invite them in, and can manage those accounts

IBM Connections : External Collaboration


Revamped UI

Ø People can immediately identify external users

Ø External users have a targeted experience of the content and people in the organization who invited them









Constrained view for an external user



Community view : External users can view members, business cards and content, but not Profiles.



Files view : External user



Warnings on externally shared resources.



Administrator configurations

➢ He can control how external users are stored in his directory

➢ He can control the workflow that occurs when an external user is invited, by adding a custom link that goes to his company’s registration process

➢ He can control the text used to decorate external user names

➢ He can control who can create external-facing communities and files

➢ He can control what data external users see on business cards —

they will see different data from employees

➢ He can use wsadmin commands to see what data an external user can see



Enabling External Collaboration on your platform

➢ Edit LotusConnections-config.xml

➢ Restart Server

➢ Enable Waltz Profiles Integration (WPI).

➢ Ensure that profiles_directory_service_extension_enabled is enabled in LotusConnections-config.xml

set <genericProperty name="visitorModelEnabled">true</genericProperty> to true

<sloc:serviceReference profiles_directory_service_extension_enabled="true" serviceName="directory"/>"



Enabling External users in Connections

➢ Disable Anonymous Access for the Connections Instance

➢ Register external users into the Profiles DB

➢ Set employee.extended role➢ For users to create external ➢ communities or to share with ➢ external users, their ➢ employee.extended role must ➢ be set through the Profiles API

Sample XML for setting employee.extended role URI: /profiles/admin/atom/profileRoles.do

<?xml version="1.0"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><id>RoleFeed-sample-1</id><entry> <id>employee</id></entry></feed>

<?xml version="1.0"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><id>RoleFeed-sample-2</id><entry> <id>employee.extended</id></entry></feed>

<?xml version="1.0"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><id>RoleFeed-sample-3</id><entry> <id>external.user</id></entry></feed>



➢ Find the content you’re looking for➢Thumbnails allow for quick scanning of a document’s first page➢Users get an idea of file contents from first page preview and don't need to click and view file until needed

➢ Get more information, without leaving the page➢Easy thumbnail on hover to see additional information on each file➢Hidden when not necessary, but available when you want them ➢Important information like Externally shared, public, private etc visible on the front of the thumbnail➢Quick access to file download from the thumbnail

IBM Connections : Files


➢ Preview files before you download➢ Users get a an idea of file contents from

first page preview and don't need to click and view file until needed

➢ Navigate through content, in context➢ Within a collection of files users can

jump from one to the next; effortlessly browsing many files with detail

➢ Sift through many files to find the one you need



➢ IBM File Viewer➢ Available as a Catalog download (1.0.6)➢ Required for generating document previews for thumbnails

➢ File Conversion➢ All new files have thumbnail previews➢ Supported file types are office, openoffice, and images➢ (.doc,.docx,.ppt,.pptx,.xls,.xlsx,.odt,.ods,.odp,

.jpg,.png,.bmp, .gif,) ➢ PDF support coming soon➢ Admin must run a 'wsadmin' task to generate previews for

existing contentwsadmin>FilesThumbnailService.generateForAllFiles()



➢ Sync to the native mobile app➢ Synchronize files between your Connections files repository, ➢ your desktop file system, and your mobile devices.

➢ Bandwidth can be tapered to WiFi only

➢ Desktop File sync➢ Round trip editing with local changes updated automatically➢ Save directly to Connections from any desktop app➢ Access the latest version available at all times

➢ Sync work by pushing files to your desktop➢ Mark files you want to access offline from the web UI





➢ Works for Personal Files

➢ Available on Desktop, iOS, Android

➢ Requires Windows 7 or Windows 8

➢ Updated plug-in will be available from Catalog.lotus.com soon— “IBM

Connections Desktop Plug-ins”



Connections 5.0 : Files


Connections 5.0 : Additional features➢ Activity Stream algorithm provides more relevant information

➢ View all of your notifications in one area

➢ Link Previews summarize content without visiting it


➢ People Typeahead ➢ Just type to search for expertise by keyword or name.

Relevancy is determine by the user’s social graph.

➢ Activity Stream Search➢ Search activity stream to find messages and content

➢ Custom Landing Pages➢ Community Managers can customize what users see when

they arrive in a community.

➢ Rich Text Editor (Ephox EditLive!)➢ Additional install of Ephox EditLive!➢ Copy and Paste of images

➢ Expanded @mentions➢ Consistent @mentions to bring users into the conversation in

Ideation Blogs, Blog Comments, and more

IBM Connections : 5.0


➢ Open Office 4.0 Integration➢ Seamlessly include files you’ve created in OpenOffice right into your

Connections instance

➢ Sametime 9 Integration➢ Collaborate in Context with click to chat, click to call, click to meet➢ Consistent identity, photo, and files across service➢ Share from Connections Files into a meeting room or chat

➢ Embedding the Activity Stream➢ Leverage the activity stream in any OpenSocial Container➢ OOTB integration with WebSphere Portal and Notes 9.0 Social➢ Edition

➢ IBM Docs➢ Preview, present and print files without downloading ➢ Real time co-editing in a web based editor

IBM Connections : 5.0


Social Business Toolkit



● IBM Social Business Platform– Standards based support e.g. REST, OAuth, OpenSocial, …

– Highly scalable and available deployment options

– High barrier to entry for application developers

● Social Business SDK simplifies this– Samples versus Documentation

– Configuration versus Coding

– Virtual Image versus Deployment

● Social Business SDK an Open Source Project– Transparent development

– Continuous releases

– External contributions


Social Business Toolkit● Let developers add social capabilities to their applications in minutes

– Through the consumption of ready to use code libraries

– Not a new set of APIs, but helpers on top of the existing APIs

– Illustrated by many comprehensive examples that can simply be copy/paste to existing applications

– Established developer patterns for social business

● Target the broader range of developers– Focus on web technologies: HTML, JavaScript and CSS

– But also support Java developers, and more over time

– Support on-premises and cloud deployments

● Let developers experiment the SDK and related examples using a web based application, known as the “developer playground”

● Delivered as an open source project (Apache 2.0 license) and available on GitHub (https://github.com/OpenNTF/SocialSDK)– External contributions will be accepted

– Supported using a community on developerWorks: http://bit.ly/ibmsbtcommunity

– Releases on OpenNTF: http://ibmsbt.openntf.org



● IBM Social Business Platform– Standards based support e.g. REST, OAuth, OpenSocial, …

– Highly scalable and available deployment options

– High barrier to entry for application developers

● Social Business SDK simplifies this– Samples versus Documentation

– Configuration versus Coding

– Virtual Image versus Deployment

● Social Business SDK an Open Source Project– Transparent development

– Continuous releases

– External contributions


Sample Applications

OpenSocial Support

Security

Code Snippets

Language Bindings Developer Playground

DocumentationServer Assets

Pre-configured Tomcat

Reusable Dijits

Quick Start Image




Saves application developers from writing cumbersome, static code● Isolates various characteristics related to connectivity to social services, outside of the code

● Makes it easy to switch between multiple environments (production, development, test...)● Isolates complexity related to authentication mechanisms

● The application code is agnostic of the underlying authentication mechanism.● No more hard coded passwords in the code!

● Comes with a secure credentials store● Complex authentication flows are handled seamlessly by the SDK

● Currently supports OAuth 1.0a, OAuth 2.0 and Basic authentication.● SSO (LTPA, SAML) will be supported as well

Provides easy to use objects with many code examples● Low level APIs for directly consuming the REST services● Higher level objects with advanced capabilities (caching, …)● Hide some platform specific requirements (ex: OpenSocial xhr API, Portlet APIs...)



This sample uses Java API to get communities of user from IBM Connections

Same consumer code when specifies an endpoint can connect to a different server using different authentication mechanism

Uses default endpoint


JavaScript API to get communities of user from IBM Connections– SDK is included with a single line of code

– A script tag pointing to the toolkit, And use any of the APIs● <script type="text/javascript" src="/library?endpoints=connections,smartcloud,domino"></script>

– Uses existing libraries (Dojo...) under the cover,but exposes a library agnostic API



JavaScript API to get communities of user from IBM Connections– SDK is included with a single line of code

– A script tag pointing to the toolkit, And use any of the APIs● <script type="text/javascript" src="/library?endpoints=connections,smartcloud,domino"></script>

– Uses existing libraries (Dojo...) under the cover,but exposes a library agnostic API




#ibmsbt

/OpenNTF/SocialSDK

http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/

http://bit.ly/ibmsbtcommunityhttp://bit.ly/VyedAB

Product documentation in wikis

http://bit.ly/sbtplayground

http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/

http://bit.ly/ibmsbtcommunity

http://bit.ly/VyedAB


Got Questions ?

IBM India Private LimitedDLF SilokheraSector-30, GurgaonIndiaMob : +91-995888 0743

[email protected]/in

Manish KatariaAdvisory Software Engineer

ICS - Smartcloud

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.ibm.com/in

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