Chapter 10 Modifying the Properties Files

This chapter contains the following:

• communityportlets.properties File

• communitymc.properties File

• communitymgmnt.properties File

communityportlets.properties File

The configuration variables defined in the communityportlets.properties file, in most cases, need not be modified. To modify the file, log into any system that has portal server installed as superuser and access the file in the PortalServer-DataDir/portals/portal-ID/config/ directory.

The file contains the following (editable) variables:

ps-community-create-type

Specifies the membership and configuration contributor type to use when creating new communities.

search-server-url

Specifies the URL for all the community portlets, which are integrated with search, to access search server for submitting, indexing, as well as searching documents.

community-search-database-prefix

Specifies a prefix when a database is created for a community. For example:

community_contents_portal1

community_discussions_portal1

community_communities_portal1

search-taxonomy-root

Specifies the root of the taxonomy. The value can be ROOT to use the whole taxonomy tree for categorization. Or, specify any valid full path of a classification to use part of the taxonomy tree.

dp-priority-base

Specifies the base value used to set display profile priorities for created communities.

communitymc.properties File

This file configures the community membership and configuration component of the Portal Server software. For the most part, this file contains low level configuration that need not be modified. However, this file must be changed to disable Java DB use in portal.

The file contains the following variables:

manager.package

Specifies the Java package name for manager implementation classes.

manager.contributors

Specifies the active membership and configuration contributor types in the system. By default, this list includes:

am-global

Access Manager service schema

am-org

Access Manager organizations

am-role

Access Manager roles

am-frole

Access Manager filtered roles

jdo

Java DB, through Java Data Objects (JDO) layer

Each of these contributor types provides membership and configuration data from a different source.

communitymgmnt.properties File

This file contains configuration for the community management SDK component. The community management SDK is not public, and this file should not be modified.