IBM Connections Customization: Add custom jsp containing navigation, header, footer

Question

We're currently adding a custom jsp file, which can be browsed by clicking a link in the (customized) navigation bar.

Said new page should look like a "native" page in connections and therefore of course contain headers, navigation, footers like any other page in IBM Connections. We added a <jsp:include> for the header.jsp file, which results in the links being shown in the resulting html. However, the styles and js are still missing.

To get around this, we included <lc-ui:dojo include="${javascriptModuleInclude}" /> into our page, since we observed this in other (native) connections jsp files. Sadly, that did not work out at all.

We can't find any help on this in the customization Documentations and the only thread in the official Connections Forum did not receive an answer http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcforum.nsf/d6091795dfaa5b1185256a7a0048a2d0/b9b5303e92c5676d85257c040046ff8c?OpenDocument

Does anyone have insights or even a hint were to look for a solution here?

Answer 1

Customization Dir is located on your system in a directory like /local/IBM/Connections/data/shared/customization customizationDir/themes/applications/profiles.css

override the css values for lotusPostDetails, you can check exactly what renders the css *rules wise in Firebug, and selectively override

Learn more info at http://infolib.lotus.com/resources/connections/4.5.0/doc/accessible/admin/en_us/acc_p4.html Subtopic... Determining where to save your customizations

You will need to restart the Connections Server before the customizations take effect.

you can add common.css as well.

also you can reference oneui as well http://infolib.lotus.com/resources/oneui/3.0/docPublic/index.htm

Answer 2

The bare minimum dependencies required to make the <lc-ui:dojo> tag work in a third party JSP page are:

lc.util.base-3.0.jar
lc.util.web-3.0.jar
lc.config.svc-1.1.jar
com.ibm.connections.directory.services.jar

Please keep in mind that this is not a supported use case — as you pointed out, you're reverse engineering native Connections JSP files. The Connections banner will probably be offered as a reusable UI component through the SBT in the near future.