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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.
Installing
To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Post-installation tasks
After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Optional: Installing and configuring the Ephox Editors for IBM Connections
IBM® Connections 6.0 CR5 can use the optional Ephox Editors: TinyMCE or Textbox.io, to replace the IBM Connections default rich text editor.
Selecting which rich text editor to deploy
Deploy the TinyMCE, Textbox.io rich text editors, or use the default rich text editor delivered in IBM Connections.
Configuration options for the Ephox Editor
The functionality of the Ephox Editors: TinyMC and Textbox.io that are installed by the Ephox Editors for IBM Connections integration can be modified in a configuration file.
Customizing the Ephox Editors
Customize the Ephox Editors: TinyMC v5 and Textbox.io for use in IBM Connections™ by configuring features such as the toolbar, fonts, and colors.
Customizing the Ephox editor's colors
Customizing the Ephox editor's colors for use in IBM Connections™.

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.
  - The installation process
    Review the steps that are required to install IBM® Connections.
  - Pre-installation tasks
    Complete the following tasks before installing IBM® Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of IBM Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
  - Installing IBM® Connections
    Select the IBM® Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
  - Post-installation tasks
    After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
    - Registering custom widgets
      Register all custom and third-party widgets with Conenctions 6 to ensure they meet security requirements and can display in communities.
    - Reviewing the JVM heap size
      Review the size of the Java™ Virtual Machine heap and adjust it, if necessary, to avoid out-of-memory errors or to suit your hardware capabilities.
    - Configuring IBM® HTTP Server
      When you have successfully installed IBM® Connections to run on WebSphere® Application Server, you can configure IBM HTTP Server to handle web traffic.
    - Configuring the Home page administrator
      Create an administrator for Home page so that you can make changes to the application such as adding and removing widgets.
    - Configuring additional IBM Connections applications
      You must perform additional tasks to enable IBM Connections for the Orient Me home page, the Touchpoint interactive user experience, Community Libraries, Community Surveys, Metrics applications, and more.
    - Optional: Installing and configuring the Ephox Editors for IBM Connections
      IBM® Connections 6.0 CR5 can use the optional Ephox Editors: TinyMCE or Textbox.io, to replace the IBM Connections default rich text editor.
      - Planning
        Review the system requirements, configuration, and deployment options before installing the Ephox Editors for IBM Connections.
      - Selecting which rich text editor to deploy
        Deploy the TinyMCE, Textbox.io rich text editors, or use the default rich text editor delivered in IBM Connections.
        Configuration options for the Ephox Editor
        The functionality of the Ephox Editors: TinyMC and Textbox.io that are installed by the Ephox Editors for IBM Connections integration can be modified in a configuration file.
        Modifying default settings
        Any changes to the configuration file must be done before installing Ephox Editors for IBM Connections.
        Customizing the Ephox Editors
        Customize the Ephox Editors: TinyMC v5 and Textbox.io for use in IBM Connections™ by configuring features such as the toolbar, fonts, and colors.
        Customizing the Ephox editor's toolbar
        Customize the Ephox editor's toolbar for use in IBM Connections™.
        Customizing the Ephox editor's fonts
        Customize the Ephox editor's fonts for use in IBM Connections™.
        Customizing the Ephox editor's colors
        Customizing the Ephox editor's colors for use in IBM Connections™.
        Changing the Stylesheet
        Any changes to the stylesheet must be done before installing Ephox Editors for IBM Connections.
        Installing the Ephox Editors
        Ephox Editors: TinyMCE and Textbox.io for IBM Connections are provided as a packaged set of files ready to deploy as an IBM Connections JavaScript customization.
      - Optional: Role-based deployment for the Ephox Editor for IBM Connections
        The optional role-based deployment module enables administrators to determine and configure which IBM WebSphere Application Server users or groups receive access to the Ephox editor.
      - Learn more about the Ephox Editor
        To learn more about how image uploading works and editor fallback for the Ephox Editor, review the following topics.
      - Uninstalling the Ephox Editor for IBM Connections
        You can use an automatic uninstall program based on your operating system to remove the Ephox Editor for IBM Connections from your environment.
    - Optional post-installation tasks
      Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
  - Uninstalling IBM® Connections
    Uninstall IBM® Connections.
- 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.
- 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™.

Customizing the Ephox editor's colors

Customizing the Ephox editor's colors for use in IBM Connections™.

About this task

You can specify the list of colors to display in the editor's menu. By default, the colors list is empty because all of its colors are commented out, as shown in the following snippet from the config.js file:

colors: {
  buttons: [
    // { value: '#FFF', text: 'white' },
    // { value: '#000', text: 'black' },
    // { value: '#444', text: 'gray' },
    // { value: '#777', text: 'metal' },
    // { value: '#CCC', text: 'smoke' },
    // { value: '#FC1D00', text: 'red' },
    // { value: '#C81500', text: 'darkred' },
    // { value: '#FF8C00', text: 'darkorange' },
    // { value: '#FEBE00', text: 'orange' },
    // { value: '#FFFC00', text: 'yellow' },
    // { value: '#22AE50', text: 'green' },
    // { value: '#006400', text: 'darkgreen' },
    // { value: '#3CB371', text: 'mediumseagreen' },
    // { value: '#8FCD4E', text: 'lightgreen' },
    // { value: '#00FF00 ', text: 'lime' },
    // { value: '#0000CD', text: 'mediumblue' },
    // { value: '#002360', text: 'navy' },
    // { value: '#0173C1', text: 'blue' },
    // { value: '#14B2F2', text: 'lightblue' },
    // { value: '#ee82ee', text: 'violet' }
  ],
  custom: true
},

If the list <uicontrol>buttons</uicontrol> is empty (or contains only comments) then the Tiny editors use the colors list from Connections. If you add one or more colors (optionally by removing the comment markers from each desired color in the list), then this list is used instead of the Connections color list. Additional custom colors may be selected from the custom color picker by the end-user when <option>custom</option> is set to <var>true</var>.

Specifying the color value with tooltip text / translation-key in an object:
```
{ value: '#FFF', text: 'white' },.
```
Specifying the color value in an object:
```
`{ value: '#FFF' },`.
```
Specifying the color value only:
```
`'#FFF',`
```

Procedure

Customize the colors list in the editor by modifying the config.js file as explained in Customizing the Ephox Editors.

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