How to Redirect to specific portal page after login in IBM Portal 8 ? 

1. open commonActions.jsp   .

2. Change contentNode="wps.content.root to your specific portal page unique name.

What is the difference between an Edit Shared Setting and a Configure in IBM WCM?

Edit Shared Setting	Configure
Apply setting for this portlet only	Apply setting for all portlets under this node.

How to make IBM Portal Theme 8.0 Responsive?

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/mo-responsive-design-1/

How to create new custom IBM Portal 8.0 Theme Layout ?

1  1)     open  layout-templates folder .

    2)   Create a copy of any template and paste in the same location.

   3)   Make necessary changes to layout.json file by adding below piece of code for custom layout  creation in portal (Registering new layout by adding an entry to the items array in the following format 

How to access IBM WCM library using JAVA API?

sad<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" prefix="c-rt"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt_rt" prefix="fmt-rt"%>

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/portal-internal.tld" prefix="wps-internal"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/resolver-v6.tld" prefix="portal-resolver"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/people.tld" prefix="pa"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/menu.tld" prefix="menu"%>

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/engine.tld" prefix="wps"%>
<%@ page session="true" contentType="text/html"
 import="java.util.*,java.lang.*,com.ibm.portal.um.*,com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.*"%>

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/portal.tld" prefix="portal"%>

<%@ page import="java.util.*,javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter,java.io.*"%>
<%@ page import="com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.*"%>
<%@ page import="com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.exceptions.*"%>
<%@page import="java.util.*"%>
<%@page import="java.io.*"%>
<%@page import="java.net.*"%>
<%@page import="java.text.*"%>

<%@ page

<c:set var="prefLanguage" value="ar" />
import="java.text.*,java.util.*,java.lang.*,java.util.logging.*,com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.*,com.ibm.portal.um.*"%>
<wps:if locale="en">
 <c:set var="prefLanguage" value="en" />
</wps:if>

<wps:if locale="ar">

</wps:if>


<%
 try {
  DocumentId docId = null;
  DocumentIdIterator itemsIterator = null;

.getDocumentLibrary("Web Content");
Workspace myworkspace = WCM_API.getRepository()
    .getSystemWorkspace();

  if (myworkspace == null) {
   out.println("Unable to get a valid workspace.<br/>");
  } else {
   out.println("Found workspace<br/>");
  }
  myworkspace.login();

  //Set the workspace to the correct library.

  DocumentLibrary MyLibrary = myworkspace


out.print("<br/><br/>Document id: " + docId.getId());
if (MyLibrary == null) {
   out.println("Library is null<br/>");
  } else {
   out.println("<br/>My lib is not null");
   myworkspace.setCurrentDocumentLibrary(MyLibrary);
  }
  itemsIterator = myworkspace.findByName(
    DocumentTypes.AuthoringTemplate, "Article");
  docId = (DocumentId) itemsIterator.next();


itemsIterator = myworkspace.findByName(DocumentTypes.Content,
    "Sample Article");
  docId = (DocumentId) itemsIterator.next();
  out.print("<br/><br/>Document id: " + docId.toString());
  myworkspace.logout();
 }

 catch (Exception e) {

  out.println("Exception " + e.getMessage());
  e.printStackTrace();

}