Using Person Tag inside custom portlet

The Collaborative Services include a JavaServer Page tag language descriptor (TLD) for a person tag. When added to your custom portlet, the person tag causes people's names to appear as hyperlinks, and the Click for Person Card option to display when the user moves the cursor over an active (underlined) person's name. Clicking this option displays the Person card. If WebSphere Portal cannot identify the person name, it displays the name as plain text and the Click for Person Card option is not available.

By default, the Person card includes the action Profile. The Send Mail action displays if the user has an e-mail address. If Lotus Sametime is installed and enabled to work with the portal, the person tag adds an icon that indicates the person's online status and additional actions:

I wanted to try this feature, so i used following steps

  • First you need to find out either EMAIL, LDAPDN or MembmerDN of the user that you want to display. In my local environment my portal is not integrated with LDAP, i am using default file based registry that ships with portal out of box. So first i checked the users that are available in the wp_profile/config/cells/localhost/fileregistry.xml




  • I have 3 users in my local file registry one is wasadmin, other is sunil and jiya. I wanted to display person tag for sunil and jiya so i created a persontag.jsp in my portlet like this

    <%@page language="java" contentType="text/html;  session="false"%>
    <%@taglib prefix="person" uri="/WEB-INF/tld/people.tld"%>
    <%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/portlet" prefix="portlet"%>
    <%@taglib
     uri="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/websphere/portal/v6.1/portlet-client-model"
     prefix="portlet-client-model"%><portlet-client-model:init>
     <portlet-client-model:require module="ibm.portal.xml.*" />
     <portlet-client-model:require module="ibm.portal.portlet.*" />
    </portlet-client-model:init>
    <portlet:defineObjects />

    <h3>PersonTag Portlet</h3>

    <person:person value="uid=sunil,o=defaultWIMFileBasedRealm" valueType="LDAPDN" 
    displayName="Sunil Patil"></person:person> <br/>
    <person:person value="uid=jiya,o=defaultWIMFileBasedRealm" valueType="LDAPDN" 
    displayName="Jiya Patil"></person:person>


    First you will have to include /WEB-INF/tld/people.tld tag library in the JSP and then you can use the person:person tag to display name of the person as person tag. I am using hard coded names to keep it simple but you can easily mix it with PUMA API

  • Once the portlet is deployed you can add it on a page and when you take your move on person's name it will display "Click for person Card" context menu, when you click on the menu, that person's card would be displayed like this


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