In IBM® Connections,
you can apply custom labels stored in an external resource bundle
to any attribute, editable attribute, or custom extension attribute.
Before you begin
To edit configuration files, you must use the wsadmin client.
See Starting the wsadmin
client for information about how to start the wsadmin command-line
tool.
About this task
When you specify external labels for attributes, editable
attributes, or custom extension attributes, the labels are only applied
to the user interface element that the configuration object represents.
For example, if you apply a custom label to a business card <attribute>
element, the label does not automatically apply to the same element
in the advanced search page layout. The label configuration must be
applied to each user interface element individually. For information
about how to add the custom strings for labels to IBM Connections, see Adding custom strings
for widgets and other specified scenarios.
Procedure
To specify external labels for attributes, complete the
following steps.
- Add an external resource bundle to IBM Connections by following the steps outlined
in the topic, Adding custom strings for widgets and other specified
scenarios.
- Start the wsadmin client from the following
directory of the system on which you installed the Deployment Manager:
app_server_root\profiles\dm_profile_root\bin
where
app_server_root is
the WebSphere® Application
Server installation directory and
dm_profile_root is
the Deployment Manager profile directory, typically dmgr01.
You
must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that
you enter do not execute correctly.
- Start the Profiles Jython script interpreter.
- Enter the following command
to access the Profiles configuration files:
execfile("profilesAdmin.py") If
prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first
node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command
writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path,
you must pick the node where the file is stored.
- Enter the following command
to check out the Profiles configuration files:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory",
"cell_name" where:
- working_directory is the temporary working directory to which the
configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use
forward slashes (/) to separate directories in the file path, regardless of your operating
system.
Note: In order for the command to complete successfully, the directory must
grant write permissions if you are using one of the following operating systems:
- cell_name is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell hosting
the Profiles application. This argument is required. It is also case-sensitive.
If you do not know the cell name, you can determine it by typing the
following command in the wsadmin command processor: print
AdminControl.getCell()
For example:
- AIX or Linux:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")
- Microsoft
Windows:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")
- Open the profiles-config.xml file
using a text editor.
- Locate the <attribute>, <editableAttribute>, or <extensionAttribute>
element that corresponds to the user interface control to which you
want to apply the custom label.
- Add the following attributes to the element:
For example:
<attribute labelKey="labels.custom.officeName" bundleIdRef="example">officeName</attribute>
- For <extensionAttibute> elements only: If you
have defined the field to be a required field, specify an extensionIdRef
attribute with a value that corresponds to the value of the field
attribute defined in the validation.xml file. See Specifying
a required field for more details.
- Save your changes.
- After making changes, you must check the configuration
files back in, and you must do so during the same wsadmin session
in which you checked them out for the changes to take effect. See Applying
property changes in Profiles for information about how to save
and apply your changes.