Lotus Connections 2.5 - Checking Out Configurations Don't Work For Me

I'm currently working on a requirement to add a link to the top-half of the Lotus Connections 2.5 Business Card, linking off to a separate application. Part of the requirement is to open this separate application in a new window, rather than over-writing the window in which the user is currently accessing Connections or, at least, the Business Card.

Following the Information Centre here: -

Adding third-party links via the XML configuration file

I'm directed to modify LotusConnections-config.xml *AND* service-location.xsd

Now I'm quite happy to check out the configuration files: -

/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/bin/wsadmin.sh -lang jython
execfile("/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/config/bin_lc_admin/connectionsConfig.py")
LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("/root","lc25Cell01")

and then hand edit LotusConnections-config.xml and service-location.xsd before checking them back in again: -

LCConfigService.checkInConfig()

and synchronise the nodes: -

synchAllNodes()

*BUT* I didn't expect the check in process to (a) not update the copy of service-location.xsd held within the cell configuration and (b) even worse, revert it back to it's pre-exported state.

The symptoms that I saw, when starting Profiles, were: -

9/6/10 15:04:11:420 BST] 0000002e VenturaConfig E com.ibm.ventura.internal.config.VenturaConfigFileValidator$DefaultContentHandler error CLFRO2024I: Error Line 142: cvc-enumeration-valid: Value 'googleService' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[activities, blogs, communities, directory, dogear, personTag, presenceAwareness, profiles, sametimeLinks, homepage, quickr, search, wikis, files, global, news, mobile]'. It must be a value from the enumeration.

                                 org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-enumeration-valid: Value 'googleService' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[activities, blogs, communities, directory, dogear, personTag, presenceAwareness, profiles, sametimeLinks, homepage, quickr, search, wikis, files, global, news, mobile]'. It must be a value from the enumeration.
        at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
...

[9/6/10 15:04:11:432 BST] 0000002e VenturaConfig E com.ibm.ventura.internal.config.VenturaConfigurationProviderImpl getConfiguration CLFRO2001E: com.ibm.ventura.internal.config.VenturaConfigurationProviderImpl Error processing config file: path /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01//config//cells//lc25Cell01//LotusConnections-config, filename LotusConnections-config.xml
                                 com.ibm.ventura.internal.config.exception.ValidationException: cvc-enumeration-valid: Value 'googleService' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[activities, blogs, communities, directory, dogear, personTag, presenceAwareness, profiles, sametimeLinks, homepage, quickr, search, wikis, files, global, news, mobile]'. It must be a value from the enumeration.
        at com.ibm.ventura.internal.config.VenturaConfigFileValidator.validateDoc(VenturaConfigFileValidator.java:118)
        at com.ibm.ventura.internal.config.VenturaConfigFileValidator.validateConfigurationFile(VenturaConfigFileValidator.java:79)
        at com.ibm.ventura.internal.config.VenturaConfigurationProviderImpl.getConfiguration(VenturaConfigurationProviderImpl.java:370)
...

Now the exception makes it quite clear - I've referenced a service called googleService which doesn't exist in service-location.xsd *because* the check-in process didn't upload the changes.

This is the "vanilla" copy of the file: -

        <xsd:simpleType name="serviceNames">
                <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
                        <xsd:enumeration value="activities" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="blogs" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="communities" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="directory" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="dogear" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="personTag" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="presenceAwareness" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="profiles" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="sametimeLinks" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="homepage" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="quickr" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="search" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="wikis" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="files" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="global" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="news" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="mobile" />
                </xsd:restriction>
        </xsd:simpleType>

and this is my edited version: -

        <xsd:simpleType name="serviceNames">
                <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
                        <xsd:enumeration value="activities" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="blogs" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="communities" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="directory" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="dogear" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="personTag" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="presenceAwareness" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="profiles" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="sametimeLinks" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="homepage" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="quickr" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="search" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="wikis" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="files" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="global" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="news" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="mobile" />
                        <xsd:enumeration value="googleService" />
                </xsd:restriction>
        </xsd:simpleType>

Once I realised, all was well.

For the record, here's the entry that I added into LotusConnections-config.xml as per the Information Centre: -

<sloc:serviceReference serviceName="googleService"
  href="http://www.google.com"   enabled="true"
  ssl_href="http://www.google.com"   ssl_enabled="false"
  person_card_service_url_pattern="/search?hl=en&amp;q={email}&amp;btnG=Google+Search"
  person_card_service_name_js_eval="'Google Me'"/>

I'll keep hacking away to achieve my objective of opening the Google service in a new window, and report back.