WA1575 WebSphere Portal Server v6 Overview Training and Courseware Course Outline

1. Introduction to the WebSphere Portal Server

  • Topics
  • What is a Portal
  • An Example of A WebSphere Portal Site
  • Benefits of Portal Sites
  • General Portal Architecture
  • The Major Components of Horizontal Portals
  • The Major Components of Horizontal Portals cont
  • WebSphere Portal Goals
  • WebSphere Portal Components
  • WebSphere Portal Components cont
  • WebSphere Portal Components cont
  • WebSphere Portal Accessibility
  • WebSphere Portal Packaging
  • WebSphere Portal Requirements
  • A Typical Network Architecture for WebSphere Portal
  • WebSphere Portal Server
  • WebSphere Portal Server Architecture
  • Portal Container
  • Portal Engine Architecture
  • Page Aggregation Modules
  • Portlet
  • WebSphere Portal Built-in Portlets
  • Portlet Application
  • Portlet Mode and State
  • WebSphere Portlet Content Publishing (WPCP)
  • Portal Document Manager (PDM)
  • Search Engine
  • WebSphere Portal Information
  • Summary
 

2. Basic Administration

  • Starting Portal Server
  • Accessing The Home Page
  • The Portal Home
  • The Portal Admin Page
  • Portlets
  • Portlets In Action
  • Portlet Catalog
  • Administrative Portlets
  • Utility Portlets
  • Application Portlets
  • Stopping Portal Server
  • Getting Server Status
  • Looking At Log Files
  • SystemOut.log
 

3. Portal Page Hierarchy

  • Topics
  • Elements of a Portal Site
  • Screen
  • The Home Screen
  • Screen
  • Page and Label
  • Page/Label Hierarchy
  • URL
  • Theme
  • Skin
  • Skin
  • Putting it all together
  • Creating Pages and Labels
  • Setting Page Properties
  • Layout Of A Page
  • Page Locking
  • Private Page
  • Adding Portlets To A Page
  • Delayed Cleanup Of Deleted Portal Pages
  • Deleting Orphaned Data
  • Creating URL
  • URL Link
  • Behavior Of The Back Button
  • Configuring Anchors
 

4. Portlet Administration

  • Topics
  • Terminologies
  • Portlet Instance Types
  • Portlet Instance Types (cont.)
  • Instance Type Summary
  • Portlet Applications and Concrete Portlet Applications
  • Portlet Modes
  • Example of Using Edit Mode
  • Portlet Window States
  • Portlet API
  • Portlet Deployment Descriptors
  • portlet.xml (IBM API)
  • portlet.xml (IBM API) cont
  • portlet.xml JSR-168
  • portlet.xml JSR-168
  • Relationship between web.xml and portlet.xml
  • Relationship between Portlet and Concrete Portlet
  • Installing a Portlet Web Module
  • How is a Portlet Web Module Installed?
  • Managing Applications
  • Managing Applications
  • Managing Portlets
  • Adding A Portlet To A Page
  • Configuring A Portlet
  • Copying A Portlet Application
  • Copy A Portlet
  • Removing A Portlet From A Page
  • Uninstalling A Portlet Application
 

5. Customizing the Look and Feel

  • Topics
  • Customization Basics
  • Customization Technique
  • Theme Basics
  • Creating a Theme
  • How Does a Theme Work
  • Theme at Work
  • Customizing the New Theme
  • Creating a Skin
  • Skins And Layouts
  • How Does a Skin Work
  • Customizing a Skin
 

6. Business Integration

  • Business Integration
  • Portlet Templates
  • CSV Portlet Template
  • Copy the CSV
  • Add the Portlet
  • Configure the Portlet
  • View the CSV
  • HTML Portlet Template
  • Copy The HTML Resources
  • Configure The Portlet
  • Add the Portlet
  • JSP and Servlet Portlet Template
  • Importing Content From External Sites
  • Web Page Portlet
  • Web Clipping Portlet
  • Configuring the Web Clipping Portlet
  • Clipping Options
  • Clipping Type
  • HTML Clipping
  • HTML Clipping - Example
  • Add the Clipping
  • RSS Portlet
  • Configure the RSS Portlet
  • Add the RSS Portlet
  • Third Party Portlets
 

7. Document Manager

  • Topics
  • What is Portal Document Manager (PDM)?
  • Productivity Components
  • Creating A Document Library
  • Configuring the PDM Portlet
  • Document library Management
  • PDM Operations
  • Access Control
  • Document Search
  • Approval Workflow
  • Versioning
  • Versioning
  • Versioning
 

8. Search Engine

  • Topics
  • Key Features
  • Taxonomy and Categorization
  • Summarization and Stemmer Support
  • Administrator Tasks
  • Administering Portal Search
  • Search Engine Organization
  • Creating Document Collection
  • Add A Content Source: General
  • Add A Content Source: Advanced
  • Add A Content Source: Scheduling
  • Add A Content Source: Filters
  • Add A Content Source: Security
  • Crawl The Source
  • Collection Status
  • Search Center Portlet
  • Using the Search Portlet
 

9. Security

  • Topics
  • Key Concepts
  • Authentication
  • Portal User Registry
  • Alternate Security Registries
  • LookAside Enabling
  • The ConfigWizard
  • Using An Alternate Database
  • Enabling Security with LDAP
  • Enable Security With LDAP
  • Single Sign On (SSO)
  • Authorization
  • How Does Authorization Work?
  • Roles
  • Role Membership
  • More on Authorization
  • Resources
  • Common Access Rights
  • Managing Users and Groups
  • Setting Resource Permissions
  • Resource Permissions GUI
  • Enabling SSL
  • Credential Vault
  • Credential
  • Components of Credential Vault
  • Structure of the Credential Vault
  • Slot Scope
  • Credential Access Level
  • Single Sign-on Scenario
  • Vault Administration
  • Vault Administration
 

10. Web Content Management Basics

  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Key Features
  • Main Components of WCM
  • How Does it Work?
  • Enabling WCM
  • Accessing WCM Authoring Tools
  • Using the WCM Tool
  • Authoring Template
  • Creating Authoring Template
  • Presentation Template
  • Corporate News Presentation Template
  • Presentation Template XML Markup
  • Site and Site Area
  • Example Site and Site Area
  • Content
  • Content Example
  • Creating a Content
  • Security and Workflow of a Content
  • Components
  • Showing a Component from an Authoring Template
  • Rendering Content in a Web Site
  • The Web Content Viewer Portlet
  • Summary
 

11. WCM Security and Workflow

  • Objectives
  • Common Security Requirements
  • Where is Security Configured?
  • Super User Access to WCM
  • Setting Library Access
  • Structure Designers
  • Granting Access for a Component
  • Authors
  • Readers
  • Workflow Basics
  • Workflow Example
  • Content Status
  • Content Rejection
  • Basic Steps to Create a Workflow
  • Creating Actions
  • Creating Stages
  • Creating a Workflow
  • Following the Workflow
  • Summary
 

12. Personalization

  • Topics
  • What is Personalization
  • Personalization
  • Recommendation Engine
  • LikeMinds Recommendation Engine
  • Rules Engine
  • Personalization Interface in Portal Server
  • Personalization Interface in Portal Server - Features
 

13. Virtual Portals

  • What are Virtual Portals?
  • Characteristics of virtual portals
  • Virtual Portals
  • Creating Virtual Portals
  • Pre-configuring Virtual Portals
  • Virtual Portals - Actions
  • Virtual Portals Content & Search