If your team uses WebSphere® Portal,
you can configure Business Space widgets
to work in WebSphere Portal.
Before you begin
Topic scope: This topic applies
to the following products:
- WebSphere Business
Modeler Publishing Server
- WebSphere Enterprise
Service Bus
- WebSphere Process
Server
Before you complete this task, you must have completed
the following tasks:
- Installed and configured WebSphere Portal.
- Installed your product (WebSphere Business
Modeler Publishing Server, WebSphere Process
Server, or WebSphere Enterprise
Service Bus).
- Configured a profile, and configured Business Space on that profile. For
more information about configuring Business Space, see the following
related tasks: "Configuring Business Space using the Profile
Management Tool," "Configuring Business Space using the administrative
console," "Configuring Business Space as part of
the Deployment Environment Configuration wizard," and "Configuring Business Space using the command
line."
- Configured the database tables (if you are using a remote database
or a deployment environment). For more information about configuring
database tables, see the following related task: "Configuring Business Space database tables."
- Deployed and registered the Representational State Transfer (REST)
service endpoints for widgets that your business users require during
run time. For more information about REST service endpoints, see
the following related tasks: "Enabling Business Space widget REST
service endpoints on the administrative console," "Enabling Business Space widgets manually
for remote endpoints," and "Enabling Business Space widgets for
multiple endpoints."
- Completed specific configuration steps for your widgets, if required. If
your team uses any human workflow widgets, My Team's Tasks widget,
or the Team List widget, see the following related tasks: "Enabling
HTML-Dojo forms for running human workflow widgets in Business Space," and "Enabling
images in My Team's Tasks and Team List widgets."
- Set up application security for Business Space. For more
information about application security, see the following related
task: "Setting application security for Business Space."
When you set up
Business Space widgets to
work in WebSphere Portal,
consider the following issues:
- You cannot mix other WebSphere Portal
portlets and the Business Space widgets
wrapped as portlets on the same page. This creates refresh issues.
- All Business Space widgets
wrapped as portlets are configured with the eventbroadcast property
value set to true. If you have created your
own widgets for Business Space,
the eventbroadcast property must be set to true.
- Expect performance differences between Business Space widget operations
in the Business Space environment
and in WebSphere Portal.
A WebSphere Portal configuration
likely involves multiple servers, and because there differences in
the communication mechanisms for each environment, widgets in WebSphere Portal might exhibit
relatively slower response times. This performance difference applies
to the WebSphere Business
Modeler Publishing Server, WebSphere Enterprise
Service Bus, and WebSphere Process
Server widgets, which must be configured with a wrapper, and not to WebSphere Business Monitor
widgets, which are integrated in the WebSphere Portal environment without wrappers.
- The Send widget is not supported in WebSphere Portal.
The Business Leader widgets are
not supported in WebSphere Portal.