05/28/2014

Theme PAA for IBM WebSphere Portal

Stephan Hesmer and Jonathan Booth have open sourced a new project, called Theme PAA for IBM WebSphere Portal which provides access to the Portal 8.5 Theme as a PAA (Portal Application Archive) deliverable. Below is their description. Stephan also blogged recently about the theme enhancements in 8.5.

"This project provides access to the IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 Theme as a PAA deliverable.

The Theme PAA is a great tool to quickly get started with your own theme as well as a great tool to demonstrate how you can package up your theme in a PAA for staging to production purposes. Additionally this Theme PAA demonstrates two theme modes: WebDAV and WAR file. It contains two separate themes and even though they look 100% identical, they are deployed once using the WebDAV repository and once using a second WAR file for static resources. Both themes that come with the PAA are equivalent in function.

Once the two themes are installed you can start to customize them and adapt them to your needs. For more information on theme customization please look here."

05/21/2014

Change Tracking for IBM Domino Directory

Shankar Venkatachalam has published a new project “Change Tracking for IBM Domino Directory”.

"We have created an application called “Change Tracking for IBM Domino Directory”. As the name indicates, the application tracks the changes in person and group documents in the IBM Domino Directory. The application reports what has changed, who has made the change and when the change has happened.

The application works for IBM Domino version 6 to 9 as well as in hybrid IBM SmartCloud Notes environments."

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05/20/2014

OpenNTF.org remembers Tim Tripcony #codefortim

The entire OpenNTF.org community was shocked last week to learn about the death of Tim Tripcony. Tim was a prolific contributor to OpenNTF.org, both with his own projects and his collaboration on the XPages Extension Library and the OpenNTF.org Domino API. Tim was a big supporter of open source and the IBM XPages community. His death touches every one of us personally.

In an effort to remember Tim’s amazing contributions to our community, the OpenNTF.org board would like to invite everyone to share #codefortim – starting right now. What is #codefortim ? It’s an effort for everyone to contribute their knowledge and passion – something Tim did better than anyone – as a lasting memorial. We have a few suggestions on how you can get involved.

First, Tim has a few uncompleted projects on Github and Bitbucket. His projects will be audited and more information will be posted. The goal is to complete these projects and publish them to OpenNTF.org. As these projects are published, we ask you do the following:
1. Include Tim as a contributor. The OpenNTF.org IP Working Group Chairman will include Tim in the project
2. Include #codefortim in your project description
3. Include Tim’s name and #codefortim in the licensing document required for a project release.

We realize that Tim’s projects aren’t something everyone has the time or skill to undertake, so we are asking that anyone who wants to contribute projects or snippets use the #codefortim tag in the project description. If you would like to contribute content in other ways, such as recording a video for David Leedy for Notesin9 as part of this community effort or write an entry on your own blog, that’s great as well. The goal here isn’t to worry about the mechanism, but to leverage Tim’s spirit. Please tag your content with #codefortim.

Tim was one of the most giving and warm members of our community. The best way we can remember him and say goodbye is to build on his legacy. Tim will be missed as one of the best teachers. And as one of the best friends. We miss you Tim.

The OpenNTF.org Board

Tim’s projects on GitHub are here. We suggest looking at oauth4domino and his personal org.opentf.xsp.extlib.
Tim’s projects on Bitbucket are here.

05/06/2014

On OpenNTF: User Rename Readiness Tool for IBM SmartCloud Notes

J Rajenderan and Shankar Venkatachalam have contributed a new project called User Rename Readiness Tool for IBM SmartCloud Notes. The tool helps to rename user names, for example when people got married, in both the on premises applications and IBM SmartCloud Notes. Below is the description from J Rajenderan and Shankar Venkatachalam. You can find out more by reading the documentation.

"What is this tool and when is it to be used?
This tool is programmed to look at the relevant on-premise artifacts and report back to the customer on the readiness for carrying out a rename for a selected user.
This tool is to be run prior to a rename being carried out for a user by a customer, whereby the appropriate checks are made to the customer's On Premise artifacts to ensure that the rename does not fail at a later stage thereby, avoiding many PMRs and issues that we and customer's face on the rename issues and avoid getting them in the funky state they find themselves in today.

How does this help?
Ensures that rename failures are avoided by pro-actively checking whether the user is ready for a rename before a rename action is carried out. This means many PMRs avoided, more customer awareness, more customer confidence of our service, lesser customer hindrances/ frustrations/ pain etc."

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