Adding Activities Plus to a community or home page

You can add the Activities Plus app (Docker widget) to communities and the home page stream.

Adding Activities Plus to a community

1. On the WebSphere® deployment manager machine, start the wsadmin client as described in Starting the wsadmin client. Check out the widgets-config.xml file:

   execfile("communitiesAdmin.py")
   CommunitiesConfigService.checkOutWidgetsConfig("/tmp//LCCheckedOut", AdminControl.getCell())
   

2. Edit the widgets-config.xml file. Find the resource element with the type of community (<resource … type=“community” … >), then under <widgets>, then within <definitions> add the following lines, replacing [BOARDS_URL] with your URL:

   <!-- Kudos Boards -->
   <widgetDef defId="Kudos Boards" modes="view fullpage" url="{webresourcesSvcRef}/web/com.ibm.social.urliWidget.web.resources/widget/urlWidget.xml" themes="wpthemeNarrow wpthemeWide wpthemeBanner" uniqueInstance="true">
     <itemSet>
     <item name="resourceId" value="{resourceId}"/>
       <item name="width" value="100%"/>
       <item name="height" value="500px"/>
       <item name="url" value="https://[BOARDS_URL]/boards/community/connections"/>
     </itemSet>
   </widgetDef>
   <!-- END Kudos Boards -->
   

3. Check in the widgets-config.xml file:

   CommunitiesConfigService.checkInWidgetConfig()
   

Adding Activities Plus to the home page stream

1. Access Homepage > Administrator.
2. Select the following:
   • Open Social Gadget
   • Trusted and Use SSO
   • Show for Activity Stream events
   • All servers
3. Click the Add Mapping button.
4. Add a Mapping for the Activities Plus service to the Huddo Boards (formerly Kudos Boards) client. Ensure OAuth Client is set to conn-ee and the Service name is Kudos Boards. Click the OK button.

5. Enter the following, replacing [BOARDS_URL] with your URL:

   Field	Value
   Title	Kudos Boards Activity Stream
   URL Address	http://[BOARDS_URL]/stream/connections
   Secure URL Address	https://[BOARDS_URL]/stream/connections
   ICON URL	http://[BOARDS_URL]/favicon.ico
   ICON SECURE URL	https://[BOARDS_URL]/favicon.ico

6. Select:

   • Use HCL Connections specific tags
   • Opened by default
7. Select the following prerequisites:
   • oauthprovider
   • webresources
   • oauth
   • opensocial
8. Scroll down and click Save.

Parent topic:Customizing Activities Plus