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Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Administering
Run administration and maintenance tasks to keep your environment up-to-date. For example, learn how to customize your deployment or how to use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration files. You can also schedule tasks, maintain application databases, moderate content, or manage users and their roles.
Administering Blogs
Administer site-wide settings for Blogs from either the Blogs user interface or via the wsadmin client.
Administering Blogs from the user interface
Make site-wide changes on your Blogs server from the Blogs user interface.
Managing the Blogs Homepage blog
The Blogs Homepage blog serves as the main page for your Blogs deployment and has some special considerations.

Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
- What's new in HCL Connections 6
  Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
- Product overview
  Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the IBM Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate IBM® Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
- Administering
  Run administration and maintenance tasks to keep your environment up-to-date. For example, learn how to customize your deployment or how to use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration files. You can also schedule tasks, maintain application databases, moderate content, or manage users and their roles.
  - Administering common areas
    Administer the common areas of IBM® Connections.
  - Administering Activities
    Configure Activities to best meet the needs of your environment.
  - Administering Blogs
    Administer site-wide settings for Blogs from either the Blogs user interface or via the wsadmin client.
    - Administering Blogs from the user interface
      Make site-wide changes on your Blogs server from the Blogs user interface.
      - Configuring an administrator for Blogs
        By default, no user is set to administer Blogs. If you have not already done so, use this procedure to designate a Blogs administrator.
      - Managing the Blogs Homepage blog
        The Blogs Homepage blog serves as the main page for your Blogs deployment and has some special considerations.
      - Specifying site-wide setting for Blogs
        Specify site-wide setting for all blogs in your organization.
      - Managing a community blog
        After you add a blog to a community, you can manage the blog from either the community or from the My Blogs page of the Blogs application. However, you can only manage membership from the community.
      - Administering Blogs users
        As the site administrator, you can directly manage a user's blog.
    - Administering Blogs using the wsadmin client
      As an alternative to modifying the Blogs site settings from the Blogs user interface via the Administration tab, you can also modify settings using the wsadmin client.
    - Moderating blog content
      Monitor and control the content of blogs using the moderation tools.
    - Changing the location of the Blogs File Upload directory
      Change default directories for the File Upload directory from the IBM® websphere Application Server (WAS) administrator console.
    - Blogs field limits
      This topic lists character input limits for key Blogs fields.
    - Extending the list of allowable file types for blogs
      Extend the list of possible file types that users could upload to a blog.
    - Understanding and configuring blog hits and visits
      Understand how blog hits and visits are calculated and how you can modify the way each count is done.
    - Understanding blog likes, comments, and visits
      This topic describes how the Most Liked, Most Commented, and Most Visited statistics are calculated and why the counts may differ between those found in the widgets and those found in the main page.
  - Administering Bookmarks
    You configure and administer Bookmarks using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to Bookmarks configuration settings require a restart of the Bookmarks server before they take effect. Changes made using administrative commands take effect immediately.
  - Administering Communities
    Configure and administer Communities using scripts accessed using the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client.
  - Administering Files
    You administer Files using the wsadmin client to specify properties in a configuration file, or run administrative commands.
  - Administering Forums
    Administer Forums by specifying properties in a configuration file or running administrative commands.
  - Administering the Home page
    You can administer site-wide settings for the Home page from the Home page administration user interface or using the wsadmin client.
  - Administering Libraries
    A Library provides the services of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system to Communities. To enable the use of Libraries, you must make some configuration changes to Connections and to each ECM system that you plan to use.
  - Administering Metrics for Cognos
    Administer metrics in IBM® Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
  - Administering the News repository
    You administer the News repository using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to News configuration settings require node synchronization and a restart of the Home page server before they take effect.
  - Administering Profiles
    Profiles provides two types of administrative capabilities: configuration settings and administrative commands. You change configuration settings and execute administrative commands by running scripts from the wsadmin command line.
  - Administering Search
    The Search service provides a point for performing full text and tag searches across all the deployed IBM® Connections applications. Search is a required application for all IBM Connections applications, and it must be running to prevent unexpected behaviors in the other applications.
  - Administering Wikis
    Configure and administer Wikis by using the wsadmin client to run administrative commands or by editing the configuration file directly.
  - Administering Component Pack for Connections
    Monitor the services for Component Pack for IBM Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
- Customizing
  Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
- Security
  IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the IBM Connections Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with IBM® Connections and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your IBM® products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM products, including HCL Connections™.

Managing the Blogs Homepage blog

The Blogs Homepage blog serves as the main page for your Blogs deployment and has some special considerations.

When you deploy Blogs, a Blogs Homepage blog with the theme Blogs Homepage theme is created to serve as the entry point for the blogs site. This type of blog is only available to an administrator. You can edit settings for this blog, such as the name or how many entries to display, on the Configuration tab of the Administration page. You can also customize the theme of the Homepage blog to change the look for the blog. For example, you can change colors or add a logo to make it more consistent with your organization’s branding elements.

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