CUSTOM THEME CREATION WEBSPHERE PORTAL 8.0.0.

1 CF5
With CTC integration and social rendering
Michele Buccarello 5/3/2013

This document describe how to create a custom theme for portal 8.0.0.1 with CTC modules and Social Rending features.

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Table of Contents
ENVIROMENT CHECK ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Install Portall 8.0.0.1 CF05 ............................................................................................................................. 2 Install CTC V4 ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Enable Inline editing and rendering features ................................................................................................ 2 EXTRACT THEME DYNAMIC AND STATIC PART.................................................................................................. 3 Extract Dynamic part ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Extract Static part .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Preparing RAD 8.5.1 for packaging the theme .................................................................................................. 7 Preparation for dynamic part ........................................................................................................................ 7 Preparation for static part ........................................................................................................................... 10 Create the war in project......................................................................................................................... 10 Setting the access in web.xml.................................................................................................................. 12 Preparing the EAR for deployment.............................................................................................................. 13 CREATING DYNAMIC CONTENT SPOTS ............................................................................................................ 13 Manualy Creation ........................................................................................................................................ 13 Automatic Creation ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Install the Theme and Register in Websphere Portal...................................................................................... 14 Install the ear in console.............................................................................................................................. 15 Register the theme in websphere portal..................................................................................................... 21 Creating the xmlaccess script .................................................................................................................. 21 Using My Custom Script .......................................................................................................................... 21 Testing the theme in a new page .................................................................................................................... 23

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ENVIROMENT CHECK
This guide coverage the creation of custom theme for websphere Portal 8 with CTC4 and social rendering feature. For create correctly the theme you need: 1) Have a local or remote installation with portal 8.0.0.1 (I suggest to install CF05) 2) Install the CTC V4 3) Enable Inline Editing and Social Rending feature

Install Portall 8.0.0.1 CF05

For this part you must follow the documentation in the portal wiki at this link

Install CTC V4
For this part you must follow the documentation in the portal wiki at this link

Enable Inline editing and rendering features

For this part you need run this two config engine: For inline editing go to in wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine and enter the following command: Windows: ConfigEngine enable-new-8001-features -DWasPassword=<password> DPortalAdminPwd=<password> Linux, Unix, IBM, i z/OS: ./ConfigEngine.sh enable-new-8001-features -DWasPassword=<password> DPortalAdminPwd=<password>

For social rendering go to in wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine and enter the following command:

Windows: ConfigEngine.bat action-enable-social-rendering -DPortalAdminId=portal_user_id DPortalAdminPwd=portal_user_password -DWasUserid=was_user_id DWasPassword=was_user_password Linux, Unix, IBM, i z/OS: ./ConfigEngine.sh action-enable-social-rendering -DPortalAdminId=portal_user_id DPortalAdminPwd=portal_user_password -DWasUserid=was_user_id DWasPassword=was_user_password

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EXTRACT THEME DYNAMIC AND STATIC PART
The Websphere Portal theme is divided in two part: Static Files located in webdav store Dynamic Files located in the Default80 theme

You need to copy this two type of files in two separated folders. For more organization I suggest to create a folder named CUSTOM THEME 8.0.0.1 CF5 and in this folder you need to create two folder: custom theme dynamic custom theme static

Extract Dynamic part

The dynamic part in my case is located in: C:\IBM8\WebSphere\PortalServer\theme\wp.theme.themes\default80\installedApps\DefaultTheme80.ear \DefaultTheme80.war In this folder you see:

You need to copy only the folders : skins themes WEB-INF

In the WEB-INF folder you need only the folder tld and the file decorations.xml, below the screenshoot of my Dynamic folder files. Custom Theme Portal 8.0.0.1 Author:Michele Buccarello

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Extract Static part

Download via webdav client or via url this folders: Themes Skins Common-resources

You can use these urls http://localhost:10039/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/fs-type1/themes/?mime-type=application/zip http://locahost:10039/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/skinlist/?mime-type=application/zip http://localhost:10039/wps/mycontenthandler/dav/fs-type1/common-resources/?mimetype=application/zip Custom Theme Portal 8.0.0.1 Author:Michele Buccarello Page 4

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after you get the zip files you need to unzip in the static folder directory, see the images below.

Go in the skinlist folder rename all folders by removing the part ibm.portal.80 and for every folder you need to delete : Metadata properties folder Metadata.properties file

See the image below for the folder Hidden after renaming BEFORE

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AFTER

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Preparing RAD 8.5.1 for packaging the theme
In this part we make an EAR with two WAR, one for static part and one for dynamic part.

Preparation for dynamic part

1) Create new web project select simple and Java EE and then press next

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2) Select as target runtime WebSphere Portal v8.0, web module version 3.0 and click on Add project to an EAR and write the name of the EAR, I use Custom8001ThemeCF5

3) Click on Web Module and click on Generate web.xml

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4) Now copy the resources located in the dynamic folder in the webcontent directory of the dynamic war, below you see the screenshot and a map of the file location : skins WebContent/skins themes WebContent/themes WEB-INF/decorations.xml WebContent/WEB-INF/decorations.xml WEB-INF/tld WebContent/WEB-INF/tld

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Preparation for static part

In this part you need to create the WAR and setting the access in the web.xml file for static resources. Create the war in project

1) Create new web project select simple and Java EE and then press next

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2) Select as target runtime WebSphere Portal v8.0, web module version 3.0 and click on Add project to an EAR and write the name of the EAR, I use Custom8001ThemeCF5

3) Click on Web Module and click on Generate web.xml

4) Now copy the resources located in the static folder in the webcontent directory of the dynamic war, below you see the screenshot and a map of the file location : skinlist/Hidden WebContent/skinlist/Hidden Custom Theme Portal 8.0.0.1 Author:Michele Buccarello

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skinlist/ NoSkin WebContent/skinlist /NoSkin skinlist/ Standard WebContent skinlist /Standard

NOTE: in the skinlist folder and themes folder I have the folder mobile 80, I have it only for e future expansion of this article. Setting the access in web.xml

In this part you need to add the line highlighted for enable the access for anonymous user to the static files.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/webapp_3_0.xsd"> <display-name>Custom8001ThemeStatic</display-name> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file> <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file> <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <context-param> <description>A regular expression that defines which of the resources in the WAR file can be served by the portal war datasource. </description> <param-name>com.ibm.portal.whitelist</param-name> <param-value>.*</param-value> </context-param> <context-param>

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<description>A regular expression that defines which of the resources in the WAR file cannot be served by the portal war datasource.</description> <param-name>com.ibm.portal.blacklist</param-name> <param-value>WEB-INF/.*</param-value> </context-param> </web-app>

Preparing the EAR for deployment

Right-click on the EAR project (in my case is Custom8001ThemeCF5) and select Java EE -- Prepare for deployment. 1. Create a new Dynamic Content Spot as per the instructions given in the table below :

CREATING DYNAMIC CONTENT SPOTS

In this part I describe two mode to create the dynamic content spots and new mode based on a jython script. I explain the Manualy creation for understand how the jython script work.

Manualy Creation
Log on to the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console and follow this steps: Go to Resources -> Resource Environment -> -> Resource environment providers -> WP DynamicContentSpotMappings. Select Custom Properties. Select New

Add the custom properties listed below to

Name=CustomTheme8001CF5_head value=res:/CustomTheme8001Dynamic/themes/html/dynamicSpots/head.jsp At the link below you find the official documentations for creating the dynamic content spots http://www10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=V8+Update%3A+Supplemental+Document ation#action=openDocument&res_title=Creating_a_dynamic_content_spot_wp8001&content=pdcontent At the link below you find all properties you need to create manualy http://www10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=V8+Update%3A+Supplemental+Document ation#action=openDocument&res_title=Working_with_dynamic_content_spots_wp8001&content=pdcont ent

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Automatic Creation
Edit the jython script attached with your own context root and your own name, for my understating I use this naming conventions: CustomThemePortalVersionname_of_the_normal_spots , for example 80theme_head became CustomTheme8001CF5_head

After you complete to edit the jython script you can simply run the script using the wsadmin console using this command: Wsadmin.(sh|bat) user adminuser password passworduser -f path_to_jython_script

After complete registration of dynamic content spots you need to reboot the portal

Replace the new Dynamic Content Spots

Change the dynamic content spots for every theme_xx.html The location of this files is Custom8001ThemeStatic/WebContent/themes/Portal8.0/nls/theme_xx.html This change must be done for all theme_*.html files , for a fast replace I use notepad++ I open every theme_xx.html and I do a find replace in all opened document, and in the find replace box I put: FIND: 80theme_ REPLACE: CustomTheme8001CF5_

After this changes you need to change the bootstrap.jspf located in Custom8001ThemeDynamic /WebContent/themes/html/bootstrap.jspf And change URI davURI = pocSvc.createURI("dav","fs-type1/common-resources/ibm/css/portal/ibmPortlets.css"); In URI davURI = pocSvc.createURI("war"," Custom8001ThemeStatic /commonresources/ibm/css/portal/ibmPortlets.css");

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Save all modification and export the EAR.

Install the Theme and Register in Websphere Portal

In this part is described the installation process of the theme and the registration process in websphere portal via xmlaccess.

Install the ear in console

Follow the images below

Click on Install button

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Click on select file and press next (depend if your portal is local or remote)

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Press next

Map the Websphere_Portal server and the webserver if you install the webserver. Custom Theme Portal 8.0.0.1 Author:Michele Buccarello Page 17

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Press next

Press finish

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Press save

Start the application

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Register the theme in websphere portal
In this part you register the theme via xmlaccess, you can create manualy the xmlaccess or use my custom xmlaccess script. Creating the xmlaccess script For create the xmlacces script you can follow this article: http://www10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+WebSphere+Portal+Express+ 8+Product+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Bind_your_theme_to_the_context_r oot_of_the_web_app_exp8&content=pdcontent

Using My Custom Script For using mycustom xmlaccess script you need: 1) Modify all context-root= parameter with the correct context root of your ear 2) Modyfy the parameter name="com.ibm.portal.layout.template.href" for pointing to your layout directory 3) Modyfy the parameter name=" com.ibm.portal.theme.template.ref" for pointing to your theme directory 4) Run the script via command line or via graphic interface

RegisterTheme8001.xml

Command line: Open the command line or the shell and go in portal_server_root/bin in my case I go in this folder c:\IBM8\WebSphere\PortalServer\bin and I run this command xmlaccess.bat -user wpsadmin -password wpsadmin -url http://localhost:10039/wps/config -in ..\doc\xml-samples\RegisterTheme8001.xml out result.xml in the result.xml you need to see this line at the bottom of the file. <status element="all" result="ok"/>

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Graphic Interface Login as portal administrator on websphere portal and go in the administration tab then click on Import Xml link and click on Choose File.

After you choose the RegisterTheme8001.xml click on import and verify the output

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Testing the theme in a new page

It is important to test the custom theme in a specific page to do this you need to: Create a page Setting the custom theme Testing if the page work correctly Page 23

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See the screen below

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Verify the if the edit mode works and if you are able to see the ctc portlets section

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