Enabling of collaboration launch pad

Question

Hi All,
I have recently installed portal and knowledge management
I need to enable the collaboration launch pad and also the search box in the Tools Area of the portal inorder to search data repositories
Can anyone tell me the procedure how to enable these two things in the portal
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi rev,
To enable Collaboration Launch Pad you have to
1Select the Tool Area iView checkbox.
2.Choose Open. The Property Editor page displays.
3.Choose Show All in the Property Category drop list menu.
4.Choose Enable Collaboration Lauch Pad properties. 
5.Select Yes radio button.
6.Choose Save
7.Choose Close.
8.Choose F5 to refresh your portal screen.
To activate the RTC Session Manager, perform the following steps:
1Go to the default framework page.
Enterprise Portal     Portal Content  u00AE Portal Users u00AE Standard Portal Users u00AE Default Framework Page.
2Double-click Default Framework Page.
3Select the Tool Area iView checkbox and choose Open.
4Choose Show All in the Property Editor drop list menu.
5Expand the Enable Real-Time Collaboration properties. 
6Select Yes radio button.
7Choose Save.
8Choose Close.
9Choose F5 to refresh your portal screen.
To Enable searching you have to install Trex. Below are the steps to register Trex with portal.
To register TREX hosts with the Portal, you have to first locate the name server and port of the TREX Installation. This is located in sapmsg.ini. You have to then set up the TREX name server in the J2EE Engine with the Visual Administrator.
Procedure
To locate the name server and port
1.     Log on to the server with Administrator privileges.
2.     Navigate to the installation folder of TREX (that is C:\usr\sap\trex_00\).
3.     Double-click sapprofile.ini to open the file in Notepad.
4.     Make a note of the port number. The default is 30001. You will need to enter this port number to the J2EE Visual Administrator in a later step.
To set up the TREX name server in the J2EE Engine
1.     Open Windows Explorer in the server.
2.     Navigate to J2EE Admin installation directory (that is C:\usr\sap\[SID]\JC##\j2ee\admin).
3.     Double-click go.bat to start the J2EE Visual Administrator.
4.     Log on to the Visual Administrator.
5.     Choose Global Configuration  Services  TREX Service.
6.     Select the nameserver.address properties field.
7.     Enter the server name of the TREX instance and the port number.
8.     Choose Update.
9.     Choose the Save button.
10.     Select Yes to restart the TREX Service.
11.     To exit the J2EE Visual Administrator, choose Close  Exit.
Check the connection to the Enterprise Portal
1.     Log on to the Enterprise Portal with super-administrator permissions.
2.     Choose System Administration  Monitoring  Knowledge Management  TREX Monitor  Server Status.
You should see the status of the HTTP Server, Name Server, Queue Server, and Index Server  is Available.
Regards
Parth
**Points will be welcomed**