Setting the default frequency of email digests
You can control the frequency with which email digests from IBM® Connections are sent by configuring settings in the notification-config.xml file. You can also lock the default frequency for a specific application or category using settings in the configuration file.
Before you begin
About this task
The following sections of the notification-config.xml file
contain the default frequency settings for IBM® Connections applications:
- defaultEmailPreferences.categories. This section contains email
setting frequencies for the following categories:
- Responses. Controls the default email digest frequency for responses to content that users have created.
- Tags. Controls the default email digest frequency for tags that users are following.
- Mentions. Controls the default email digest frequency for @ mentions.
- External. Provides an override for any third-party application that is enabled for email digests. It does not have a default frequency configured.
- IBM® Connections application sources. The source for individual IBM® Connections applications contains the defaultFollowFrequency setting for those applications.
You can also specify the email digest frequency for updates from any third-party applications that are enabled for email digests. To set the default email digest frequency for a third-party application, use the NewsActivityStreamService.updateApplicationRegistrationForEmailDigest command. For more information about this command, see Registering third-party applications.
Procedure
To set the default frequency for email digests, complete
the following steps.
- Access the notification configuration file.
- Using a text editor, open the notification-config.xml file from the temporary directory to which you checked it out.
- To set the default frequency of email digests for specific IBM® Connections applications:
- To configure the default frequency settings for email digests
related to tags, responses to content, or to override the settings
for third-party applications that are enabled for email digests:
- Save, close, and then check in the notification-config.xml file as described in Accessing the notification configuration file.