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Specifying the home portal account using preferences
To use features that require an IBM® WebSphere® Portal server, such as composite applications that contain portlets, IBM® Lotus® Notes® users need a Home Portal account. The Home Portal account is a unique account that specifies which WebSphere Portal server to connect to for features and composite applications that require a WebSphere Portal server. You can set up a Home Portal account for users, and Lotus Notes users can create and edit the account using a preference panel.

After Lotus Notes is installed and prior to using composite applications that contain portlets, or other features that require a WebSphere Portal server, users need a Home Portal account.

Home Portal account information is stored in the Contacts database.

Note The standard portal URL format is http://host:port/wps/myportal, where /wps is a standard portal context and /myportal is a standard personalized Home.

1. Click File - Preferences.

2. Click Home Portal Account.

3. In the Name field, note the preset Home Portal Account value or type a new one.

4. In the Description field, type a descriptor, for example Home Portal Account.

5. In the Server Type field, note the preset value or type a new one.

6. In the Server field, type the Web address of your WebSphere Portal server, for example http://abx8.ibm.com/wps.

Include the Portal context, for example /wps, when specifying the server URL, as shown below:

http://abx8.lotus.com:10038/wps is a valid server URL.
http://abx8.lotus.com:10038/ is not a valid server URL.

7. In the User name and Password fields, type your WebSphere Portal user name and password.

8. In the Home Portal URL field, type the WebSphere Portal server URL, for example http://abx8.lotus.com:10038/wps/myportal.

Note

By default, this field is based on the value specified in the Server field above. For example, if you specify a Server value of http://abx:10038/wps, the Home Portal URL field is automatically set to http://abx8.lotus.com:10038/wps/myportal. If your WebSphere Portal server is installed with a personalized Home other than the default "myportal," you must override the default value in the Home Portal URL field, for example http://abx8.lotus.com:10038/wps/myPortalSrv1. In this case, the Personalized Home of your portal is myPortalSrv1.

9. In the Authentication type field, choose a type, such as the recommended PORTAL_FORM type.

10. In the Authentication URL field, type the authenticating server URL, for example http://abx8.ibm.com/wps/j_security_check.

The format for the authentication value is protocol://host/WpsContextRoot /j_security_check.

Note The default authentication URL is http://abx8.ibm.com/wps/portal/cxml/04_SD9ePMtCP1I800I_KydQvyHFUBADPmuQy. If the default home of your port is not "portal," modify the authentication URL accordingly, for example, for default home "bos," the authentication URL would be http://abx8.ibm.com/red/bos/cxml/04_SD9ePMtCP1I800I_KydQvyHFUBADPmuQy.

11. Click OK.

Note There is a similar preference page available in the IBM® Lotus® Expeditor® client, described in the Expeditor help at the following Web address:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ledoc/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.pvc.runtime.doc.user/tasks/user_specifyingahomeportalpage.html

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