Tip: IBM Quickr for WebSphere Portal 8.5 – Migration Strategies
Fundamentally there are two advertised approaches for migrating from Quickr for WebSphere Portal 8.1.1.1 to 8.5. One approach is to leverage the Backup & Restore functionality of IBM Quickr and another is to embrace a complete migration following a detailed procedure that migrates all places on a server. There is a potential issue with the former scenario that should not be overlooked. That is this: Be sure that all places to be restored have been backed up AFTER upgrading the “source” server to 8.1.1.1 and that each backup references the current page and portlet deployment of the system. Customers who rely on backups that are months or more old may be gravely disappointed when attempting to restore such places on their new 8.5 platform.
Tip: Rational Application Developer & Portal Home Page
You might be using a development server where another team has implemented a page hierarchy. You know something is wrong when you try to run your portlet application on the server and the pages used by Rational to display the portlet aren’t available.
What happened? In all likelihood the original label named Home has been deleted. This isn’t a bad thing but Rational expects to find a page whose unique name was associated with that label. To fix the problem choose a location in the page hierarchy such as a top node in your custom hierarchy and create a sibling (or a child) and provide ibm.portal.Home as the unique name. This, of course, assumes you don’t already have a node with such a name. Furthermore, if you do have such a node, then there is another problem than the one this tip assumes.
Now, when you attempt to run your portlet application on the server, the tool can create a child of the predefined node and launch the page that displays your portlet.
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