For most people who look at IBM’s social software product, one of the first questions asked is, “How can I customize this to fit my needs?” Usually those questions focus on branding, adding in extra top level navigation, federating the search, and adding in widgets on the home and other pages. IBM released a white paper on this subject on their developer works site. It’s worth a read.
- Introduction
- Understanding the Wsadmin tool
- Setting up for customization
- Customizing the interface
- Customizing for your company policy
- Customizing error pages
- Internationalization
- Working example: License agreement strings
- Working example: Customizing blog JavaScript strings
- Conclusion
- Resources
- About the authors