How to integration the third-party forums in Portal?

[Former Member]

Hello everyone,

I want to integration an third-party forums into Portal.

How to do it ?

Is there anyone had done that?

Thanks & Regards,

Jianguo Chen

[holger_stumm2 · Accepted solution]

We have done that with Lotus Notes.

It depends on the abilities of your 3rd party app.

First, you need to identify the way to do single sign on (URL-based, Cookies, Certificates etc)

Then you need to verify abilties of UI integration in the portal. (Simple HTML, Frames, Javascripts etc). Best is, if it is as plain HTML as possible.

Than you can integrate it as an iview, in the simplest case as an URL-iview.

If you have more specific questions or a specific product, feel free to post again

greeting -hs

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Holger,

Thank you for your response.

I am familiar with URL-iview,

and it should be ok integration forum as an iview.

But the third-party forum has its own user management system.

I means that the third-party forums need register and logon, then users can enter it.

We want carry out that integration the user management of Portal and the third-party forum,

the user of Portal and the third-party is consistent,

Portal UME can full control the third-party forums's user.

Is this issue possible?

And I am agree with your opinion that we need some develop for UI integration.

Regards,

Jianguo Chen

[holger_stumm2 · Accepted solution]

This sounds as if you need a way of replicating users between EP and the Forum. This can be done, but by programming only. We have done this by creating XML-sets of the UME record and replicating this to the target systems, where it was read and put into the 3rd party system.

After it is replicated, we use "Header authentication" to jump between portal and the 3rd party. Therefore, a little iview was written that puts he logged on unser into the header. The 3rd party needs to be able to read the header authenticated user name and act accordingly (Assign Roles etc).

Just an example, there are a lot more ways to solve this problem

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Holger,

Thanks for your helpful advise.

Regards,

Jianguo Chen

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