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Configuring Business Space widgets for WebSphere Portal

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.
  • This information applies to feature pack. To use what is described, you must have installed the optional feature pack The Business Leader widgets are not supported in WebSphere Portal.

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