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Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 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 HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Optional: Installing and configuring the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
HCL Connections 6.5 can use the optional Tiny Editors: TinyMCE or Textbox.io, to replace the HCL Connections™ default rich text editor.
Learn more about the Tiny Editor
To learn more about how image uploading works and editor fallback for the Ephox Editor, review the following topics.
Editor fallback
Editor fallback is designed to ensure that end users always receive the best possible editing environment that they are able to run with their client environment.

Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 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
  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 HCL Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
  - The installation process
    Review the steps that are required to install HCL Connections.
  - Pre-installation tasks
    Complete the following tasks before installing HCL Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of HCL Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
  - Installing HCL Connections
    Select the HCL 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.
  - Optional: Installing and configuring the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    HCL Connections 6.5 can use the optional Tiny Editors: TinyMCE or Textbox.io, to replace the HCL Connections™ default rich text editor.
    - Planning
      Review the system requirements, configuration, and deployment options before installing the Tiny Editors for HCL 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 HCL Connections.
    - Optional: Role-based deployment for the Tiny Editor for HCL 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 Tiny editor.
    - Learn more about the Tiny Editor
      To learn more about how image uploading works and editor fallback for the Ephox Editor, review the following topics.
      - Editor fallback
        Editor fallback is designed to ensure that end users always receive the best possible editing environment that they are able to run with their client environment.
      - How image uploading works for Textbox.io
        Textbox.io support the uploading of local images inserted into the editor either directly or via import from Microsoft Word.
    - Uninstalling the Tiny Editor for HCL Connections
      You can use an automatic uninstall program based on your operating system to remove the Tiny Editor for HCL Connections from your environment.
  - Copying Search conversion tools to local nodes for AIX and Linux
    To enable full indexing of data, copy the Search conversion tools to local nodes.
  - Copying Search conversion tools to local nodes for Windows
    To enable full indexing of data, copy the Search conversion tools to local nodes.
  - Optional post-installation tasks
    Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
- Uninstalling HCL Connections
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate HCL Connections™ and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest deployment, 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 HCL Connections™ to fit your environment.
- Security
  HCL Connections™ provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the HCL Connections™ Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with HCL 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 HCL 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™.

Editor fallback

Editor fallback is designed to ensure that end users always receive the best possible editing environment that they are able to run with their client environment.

The editor fallback functionality of Tiny Editor for HCL Connections™ enables rich text sections to revert to the editor that is packaged with HCL Connections in certain situations. When fallback occurs, it will always be to the default HCL Connections editor. Textbox.io fallback occurs when the browser is not supported by Textbox.io. The instance of the HCL Connections editor that is loaded is unmodified by Tiny. Editor fallback does not include any additional functionality beyond what is packaged with HCL Connections.

The Tiny Editor for HCL Connections integration enables editor fallback to happen automatically. The end user will not be prompted to manually trigger the fallback, and users of most browsers will not see any Java install prompts. When the page containing a rich text editing section is loaded into the browser, the integration uses JavaScript to identify the end user's platform - their browser and whether Java is installed.

If Textbox.io is configured as the preferred editor, and if the browser supports it, then editor fallback will run. However if Java is unavailable or the user has an unsupported browser, then the default editor packaged with HCL Connections will be instantiated in the rich text editing section.

Fallback does not make any of the Tiny Editor functionality available in the original packaged editor. Much of the functionality that differentiates the Tiny Editor relies on HTML5 for Textbox.io and cannot be made available in an unsupported client. The fallback functionality does not make any of the Tiny Editor functionality available in the default CKeditor packaged with IBM Connections. In effect, users who work with this editor experience HCL Connections as it was prior to the Tiny Editor installation.

Users that have a client environment that is supported by Textbox.io will receive Textbox.io as the rich text editor within HCL Connections

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