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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
Integrating
Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
Integrate with collaboration software
HCL Digital Experience integrates with collaboration software to provide you with more effective and cost-efficient ways of accessing information, sharing ideas, communicating and working together. Key software that HCL integrates with includes HCL Domino, HCL Sametime, and HCL Connections.
Collaborative Services environment properties
If your collaborative site requires optional configuration that is not accomplished by the tasks that you run on the HCL Portal server to integrate IBM Domino and the collaboration products, you can modify the operation of the collaborative servers and portlets in various ways by manually editing the Lotus Collaborative Services environment properties file (CSEnvironment.properties) on the HCL Portal server.
Auto-detecting user mail information from a secondary LDAP server
You can set the Lotus Collaborative Services in the portal to detect users' mail file information from an additional (secondary) non-Domino LDAP user directory. For example, you may need to configure two directories if your organization has one for customers and one for employees.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
- Overview
  HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
- Supported migration paths
  Migration is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Supported installation and upgrade paths
  Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Getting the software
  New and existing users need to register at the HCL Software License Portal and download their entitled HCL Digital Experience package(s).
- Creating your website
  Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.
- Installing HCL Digital Experience
  Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
- Configuring
  Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
- Backup and restore
  Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.
- Migrating
  Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.
- Integrating
  Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
  - Integrate with collaboration software
    HCL Digital Experience integrates with collaboration software to provide you with more effective and cost-efficient ways of accessing information, sharing ideas, communicating and working together. Key software that HCL integrates with includes HCL Domino, HCL Sametime, and HCL Connections.
    - Finding users
      Use PeopleFinder or Directory Search to locate other WebSphere Portal users. The People Finder portlet can be added to a page through the Content menu, so that users can find people in any context. Directory Search is available to users as part of a larger task, such as sending mail. Directory Search also enables users to search for user groups in addition to individual users.
    - Planning for collaborative servers and portlets
      Setting up a site with HCL Domino integration requires decisions about user directories, security, authentication, and performance. View some use cases that may help you make decisions leading to a successful Domino integration.
    - Integrating with HCL Sametime
      Configuring the Sametime Community Server and Sametime portlets requires a set of tasks performed on both the Sametime Community Server and the portal server.
    - Collaborative Services environment properties
      If your collaborative site requires optional configuration that is not accomplished by the tasks that you run on the HCL Portal server to integrate IBM Domino and the collaboration products, you can modify the operation of the collaborative servers and portlets in various ways by manually editing the Lotus Collaborative Services environment properties file (CSEnvironment.properties) on the HCL Portal server.
      - Editing the CSEnvironment.properties file
        To modify any Lotus Collaborative Services environment properties, you must stop the portal server, locate the file in a location specific to your platform, back up the file before editing it, use a text editor to open and modify it, and then restart the server.
      - Auto-detecting user mail information from a secondary LDAP server
        You can set the Lotus Collaborative Services in the portal to detect users' mail file information from an additional (secondary) non-Domino LDAP user directory. For example, you may need to configure two directories if your organization has one for customers and one for employees.
      - Customizing Collaborative Services user credentials for eTrust SiteMinder
        If you protect the portal and any of the Domino and Extended Products Portlets or Common Mail portlet with Computer Associates eTrust SiteMinder, you must set the Lotus Collaborative Services to use the eTrust SiteMinder token instead of the default LTPA token.
      - Supporting automatic mail detection with an LDAP directory other than Domino
        If the LDAP directory configured for the portal and for Lotus Collaborative Services is not IBM Domino, and you want the automatic mail detection feature in Domino messaging portlets, you can modify the CSenvironment.properties file to support the feature.
      - Tuning performance of the Domino Directory
        If you are using Domino Directory as the primary (and only) LDAP server for HCL Portal, you can set the following property in the CSEnvironment.properties file to false to improve the performance of Domino Directory.
      - Using LtpaToken2 for user login
        By default, the credential settings in the CSEnvironment.properties file are set to use an LTPA token for user login. If your environment is configured with LtpaToken2 only, you must modify the CSEnvironment.properties file to use LtpaToken2 instead of LtpaToken.
  - Integrating with Watson Content Hub
    Watson Content Hub is a cloud-based content management system that organizes your content and digital assets for quick retrieval and easy delivery. Integrate HCL Digital Experience with Watson Content Hub to retrieve assets to publish on your site.
  - Integrating business processes
    Access relevant tasks and activities for multiple business process management solutions from a single user interface. The Unified Task List portlet provides a single point of integration between multiple systems and displays tasks that HCL Portal users must complete to advance workflows. The topics in this section provide information and instructions for developing and customizing the Unified Task List.
  - Integrating with web applications
    The Web Application Bridge uses reverse proxy technology to integrate web-based content providers, such as the Microsoft SharePoint server, with HCL Digital Experience. Administrators must first define the virtual web applications or content providers. A lightweight iFrame portlet renders the content from the backend applications. Users can then access the iFrame on a page without requiring direct network access to the backend application. A special engine maps Uniform Resource Identifier (URIs) on the iFrame portlet to real URIs from the content providers.
  - Integrating with SAP NetWeaver Portal
    You can use HCL Integrator for SAP to integrate content from an SAP NetWeaver Portal into your HCL Digital Experience. You can integrate navigational structures and single content pieces.
  - Integrating with IBM MobileFirst
    You can integrate HCL Portal with MobileFirst to provide multi-channel support to your web communities. You can create a hybrid application that adds native device functions and a unified web experience on mobile device browsers and in mobile device native applications. You can use MobileFirst to create a hybrid application that adds native device functions to your portal.
  - Configure HCL Portal to work with HCL Connections
    Integrate the power of HCL Connections with HCL Portal application.
- Administering
  Use the administration tools that are provided with the HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
- Securing
  Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.
- Monitoring
  HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
- Setting up a website
  Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.
- Staging to production
  During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.
- Developing
  This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
- Docker and Containerization
  Find topic information about Docker and Containerization for HCL Digital Experience.
- Practitioner Studio
  Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.
- HCL Experience API
  This shows developers how to provision, configure, and use the HCL Experience API with the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 platform.
- HCL Content Composer
  The HCL Content Composer delivers simplified processes for creating and managing Digital Experience site content.
- HCL Digital Asset Management
  HCL Digital Asset Management (DAM) adds a central platform to store and include rich media assets in Digital Experience site content to present engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels.
- The Woodburn Studio demo site
  The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.
- Reference
  View information that can help you use our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.

Auto-detecting user mail information from a secondary LDAP server | HCL Digital Experience

You can set the Lotus Collaborative Services in the portal to detect users' mail file information from an additional (secondary) non-Domino LDAP user directory. For example, you may need to configure two directories if your organization has one for customers and one for employees.

Before you begin

The secondary LDAP directory server is specified for the property CS_SERVER_DOMINO_DIRECTORY_1.custom_ldap_host.

About this task

Modify the CSEnvironment.properties file.

The following example shows the syntax with comments.

# Optional advanced settings 
# The following fields are disabled, by default.
# If it is enabled (determined by custom_ldap_host) and a different server is specified,
# The following user information will be retrieved from this secondary server.
# Mail Server,  Mail file and Email address 
#   
#CS_SERVER_DOMINO_DIRECTORY_1.custom_ldap_host=my.server.com
#CS_SERVER_DOMINO_DIRECTORY_1.custom_ldap_port=389
#CS_SERVER_DOMINO_DIRECTORY_1.custom_ldap_ssl=true
#CS_SERVER_DOMINO_DIRECTORY_1.custom_ldap_searchBase=base