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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 Forums
Administer Forums by specifying properties in a configuration file or running administrative commands.
Enabling topic posting in different deployments
Enable users to take forum topics in one IBM® Connections deployment and post them to a different IBM Connections deployment.

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 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.
    - Running Forums administrative commands
      Use the wsadmin client to administer the Forums application.
    - Changing Forums configuration property values
      Configuration settings control how and when various Forums operations take place.
    - Retrieving forum content
      Use administrative commands to retrieve lists of forums and forum topics. You can narrow down a list of forums to retrieve a specific subset of forums that you want to administer.
    - Rectifying the count of forums and forum topics
      Recalculate the count of forums and forum topics.
    - Moderating forums
      Enable a moderator to review and manage forum posts.
    - Managing forum trash
      Move forum content to the trash, empty the trash, restore forums and forum topics from the trash, and perform other trash management tasks for Forums.
    - Managing Forums scheduled tasks
      Use the ForumsScheduler administrative commands to manage the tasks that are scheduled for forums.
    - Managing file attachments in Forums
      You can manage space on the Forums application server by limiting the number of attachments that users can upload to a forum post. To prevent users from uploading file attachments, you can edit configuration settings in the forum-config.xml file.
    - Enabling topic posting in different deployments
      Enable users to take forum topics in one IBM® Connections deployment and post them to a different IBM Connections deployment.
    - Adding a feed for topics and replies
      Add a property to the LotusConnections-config.xml file to add a feed that includes topics and the replies to the topics.
    - Restricting topic editing
      You can restrict the editing of forum topics or replies to their creators. Only a user who created a topic or a reply can edit it.
    - Allowing non-community members to comment in forums
      Allow users who are not community members to comment in forums in public or moderated communities.
  - 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™.

Enabling topic posting in different deployments

Enable users to take forum topics in one IBM® Connections deployment and post them to a different IBM® Connections deployment.

About this task

Users can click Bookmark or Discuss This on any IBM® Connections page to install a Discuss This button in their browser toolbar. When a user clicks the button, the content of the current page is added to a forum topic that the user selects.

Use the discussThis.enabled property to enable a similar Discuss This button on every forum topic page. Users can click the button to post the topic as a new topic in a forum in a different IBM® Connections deployment. You can specify that deployment in the discussThis.internalHost property.

For example, if you have two IBM® Connections deployments in your enterprise, A and B, you can allow forums users in Deployment A to post topics to Deployment B forums. To enable this feature, check out the forums-config.xml file in Deployment A and specify the address of the forums application in Deployment B. When users open a forum page in deployment A and clicks the Discuss This link, they can select the target forum on Deployment B from a pop-up dialog. If the users are not logged in to Deployment B, they are prompted to log in before they can post the new topic. Users must be members of the group that is mapped to the discussThis-user role on Deployment A (the default is Everyone).

Procedure

On the Forums server in IBM® Connections deployment A, check out the forums-config.xml file. For more information, see Changing Forums configuration property values.
To enable the feature, run the following command in the wsadmin client:
```
ForumsConfigService.updateConfig("discussThis", "true")
```

Specify the address of the forums application in deployment B:

ForumsConfigService.updateConfig("discussThis.targetBookmarklet", "http://forums_appserver.enterprise.com:9081/connections/bookmarklet")

Check in the forums-config.xml file.
Restart the Forums application.

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