Changing portal page to use a layout template

If you create a portal page from portal administration user interface:

the chances are you will not be able to use the "PageBuilder2" feature to add new portlet into the page (using "Actions" - "Customize").  To enable the page to use the feature you need to do the following:
1. Export the page definition into xml file
2. Update the xml file by adding the following parameter for the specific <content node>


            <parameter name="com.ibm.portal.layout.template.expiration" type="string" update="set"><![CDATA[1297730961223]]></parameter>
            <parameter name="com.ibm.portal.layout.template.file.name.html" type="string" update="set"><![CDATA[layout.html]]></parameter>
            <parameter name="com.ibm.portal.layout.template.lastmodified" type="string" update="set"><![CDATA[1297644561353]]></parameter>
            <parameter name="com.ibm.portal.layout.template.markup" type="string" update="set"><![CDATA[html]]></parameter>
            <parameter name="com.ibm.portal.layout.template.ref" type="string" update="set"><![CDATA[dav:fs-type1/layout-templates/3ColumnCenter]]></parameter>

into the <content-node> stanza for the specified portal page.

3. We also need to update the type of the content node to "staticpage"

<content-node action="update" active="true" allportletsallowed="true" content-parentref="Z6_020K9B1A0823E0IE07U5O500O0" create-type="explicit" domain="rel" objectid="Z6_020K9B1A0GIU80IE2099SD20H6" ordinal="600" type="staticpage">

4. Re-import the xml file

Hope this helps..

Using SAP extension in WebSphere Portlet Factory and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

I have WebSphere Portlet Factory 7.0 running on Ubuntu Linux 10.10. I also used WAS CE  version 2.1.1.4 as the test environment.

I have to do the following to allow SAP extension

• Get the SAPJCo from SAP administrator
• Install the SAPJCO according to the documentation provided by SAP for linux environment
• Add class path variable into /etc/environment:

           CLASSPATH="/opt/sapjco/sapjco.jar"

• Add path to the /opt/sapjco folder. (This is also done in /etc/environment file).  The following is the content of my /etc/environment file

                  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/sapjco"

                  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/sapjco"

                  CLASSPATH="/opt/sapjco/sapjco.jar"

• Add "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/sapjco" at the end of /etc/bash.bashrc file
• Restart your system
• Follow the instruction in http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpfhelp/v6r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.bowstreet.designer.doc/get_start/sap_getting_started.htm

After the above steps, I am able to do a "Test Connection" from the builder, however, when trying to test the application, I got "noclassdeffounderror" for the jco class. In order to fix that, I have to update geronimo.sh file and add /opt/sapjco, into $EXT_DIRS variable.

Restart your server after that. Then you should be able to test the model