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Computer Architechs International Corporation Announces Online Conference System for Social Business

Torrance, CA (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

Computer Architechs International Corporation (CAI), an organization that provides premier consulting services centered around social business, today announced Social Business Online 2012, an online conference system that allows conference attendees to get the most out of their conference experience.

Social Business Online 2012 opened on Jan. 5, 2012, and will be available to attendees of IBM’s social business conferences, IBM Connect and Lotusphere 2012, until Feb. 3, 2012. This online tool is a powerful source of information that enhances the conference experience for attendees by allowing them to “get social” and “go mobile” when creating their conference schedules, networking and chatting instantly with other attendees, setting status updates, acting on social recommendations, interacting with Twitter feeds, creating profiles, participating in communities and forums, creating wikis, sharing favorite bookmarks, microblogging and so much more.

Social Business Online leverages the power of XPages seamlessly integrated with many of IBM’s social collaboration and mobile tools. It allows users to experience Social Business for themselves from almost anywhere an Internet connection is available. In fact, the online conference system can be accessed from almost any mobile device.

Besides the full online conference system, accessible by the most popular browsers, users have access to a mobile version of the site from advanced mobile devices with smaller screens. Users who don’t sport a tablet or smartphone can still mobilize by accessing the Mobile Lite site, which supports most Internet-connected mobile phones with less advanced browsers.

In addition, CAI also provided native conference agenda applications for the Apple iOS, Google Android, and RIM Blackberry devices for ultra-portability. These applications allowed users to download the conference agenda right to their devices, search, view and schedule sessions, and also synchronize their schedules with their accounts on the Social Business Online 2012 site. The applications also allowed attendees to automatically update the Agenda when any changes were made to the Agenda on the main online site.

“The agenda mobile apps gave attendees the unique ability to view and schedule sessions while offline and then, with a click of a button, sync their schedules and the agenda with their conference accounts” said Reed Gesteland, President and CEO of Computer Architechs International Corp.

The schedule could also be synchronized to users’ own calendars with Apple iOS, Google Android, Nokia SymbianOS, and Microsoft Windows Mobile devices via the site’s Lotus Notes Traveler server. Finally, if that wasn’t enough mobile support already, a user’s schedule could also be exported as an iCal file to be imported into any calendar application that supports the iCalendar standard.

About Computer Architechs International Corporation
Computer Architechs International Corporation is an IBM Advanced Level Business Partner that specializes in providing premier IT consulting services centered around the IBM Social Business portfolio of products. CAI has been providing IT consulting services for IBM Lotus software since 1996 and has more than 15 years of experience providing professional mobile application development services across an array of different industry verticals. CAI can be contacted via email at sales(at)caicorp(dot)com or by telephone toll-free: 888-614-2197. CAI can also be found on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Additional information can be obtained at http://www.caicorp.com.

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Change the proxy policy to add the external iWidget to IBM Connections 3.0.1

When I tried to add some new widgets such as Lotus Learning Widget, XPages Widget, Widgets wrapping iGoogle Gadgets  into IBM Connections 3.0.1, I faced the problem below.

BMWIW0001E: Unable to load iWidget ******************************* Status: 403

Basically this error was caused since IBM Connections security policy was increased for external domain access.

Below is the way to enable the external iWidget on IBM Connections.

  1. Go to the LotusConnections-config folder
    (Sample path) /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/config/cells/connectionsCell01/LotusConnections-config/
  2. Open proxy-config.tpl file to edit
  3. Add following line under <!– BEGIN CUSTOMIZATIONS HERE –>

    <!– BEGIN CUSTOMIZATIONS HERE –>
    <proxy:policy url=”http://www-10.lotus.com/learning/connections/*” acf=”none”>
    <proxy:actions>
    <proxy:method>GET</proxy:method>
    </proxy:actions>
    <proxy:headers/>
    <proxy:cookies/>
    </proxy:policy>

    Note: you can set the policy url=”*” if you would like to allow widgets from any external domain

  4. Save the file and close.
  5. To propagate this file change, Go to Deployment Manager Console (WebSphere)
  6. Go to [System administration] -> [Nodes] from left navigation
    IBM Connection 3.0.1iWidget
  7. Go to [Applications] ->[Application Types] -> [WebSphere enterpise applications], then restart applications.

That’s all what I did.

Below is the useful link:
Enabling IBM Connections 3.0.1 for External Widgets: http://phase2.com/blog/?p=1861

File – Application – Install menu options missing from Domino Designer 8.5.3

Updated on Nov 8, 2011 @ 13:50(PDT)

To enable the Install and Application Management options in Domino Designer 8.5.3, simply go to File – Preference – Domino Designer ->(General section) Enable Eclipse plug-in install. (Special thanks to Dan O’Connor)

 

Below is the original post for alternative way to show the options. (not recommended)

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Below is the way to show File – Application – Install option in Lotus Notes/Domino Designer 8.5.3.

I needed to select File – Application – Install option to install the latest XPages Extension Library (OpenNTF XPages ExtLib page) into Domino Designer 8.5.3 automatically via the update site database that is the new feature of Domino 8.5.3.

  1. Close Lotus Notes and Domino Designer.
  2. Go to Lotus\Notes\framework\rcp
  3. Edit plugin_customization.ini
  4. Add the following line, then save the file.
    com.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true
  5. Go to Lotus\Notes\Data\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings
  6. Edit com.ibm.notes.branding.prefs file
  7. Edit 2nd line
    [Before]
    #Thu Sep 08 11:56:06 PDT 2011
    enable.update.ui=false
    eclipse.preferences.version=1
    [After]
    #Thu Sep 08 11:56:06 PDT 2011
    enable.update.ui=true
    eclipse.preferences.version=1
  8. Start Lotus Notes and Domino Designer.

 

Then I could confirm Install and Application Management options are shown in File – Application.