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Administering Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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 common areas
Administer the common areas of HCL Connections.
Customizing the deployment
Perform optional tasks to customize your HCL Connections deployment.
Administering Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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 Connections
To install
HCL Connections™
, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Installing or upgrading Component Pack for Connections
The Component Pack for HCL Connections introduces several offerings that enhance collaboration and boost productivity. Read on to understand the offerings, what resources Component Pack requires, some sizing considerations for Kubernetes, information on automating installation or upgrade, and sample steps for installation or upgrade.
Post-installation tasks
After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Optional: Installing and configuring
Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
The Tiny editors are alternative rich-text editors which can be installed for
HCL Connections™
. They provide additional features and extensive customization options not available with the default editor.
Optional post-installation tasks
Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
Uninstalling
Uninstall HCL Connections.
Upgrading and updating
Upgrade HCL Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or cumulative fixes. Refer to the
What's New in HCL Connections
to review the features in the latest release and gather download links or links to the latest fix list and update strategy information.
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 HCL Connections.
Administrator checklist
Consider tasks that you might want to complete after you install HCL Connections and before users start using it.
Administration tools
Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.
System maintenance
Make sure HCL Connections works properly in your particular environment.
Managing content
Use superusers, moderation, and other methods to manage HCL Connections content.
Administering the Widget container
The Widget Container is the HCL Connections-specific integration of the Common Rendering Engine, also known as the CRE.
Managing access
Manage roles, credentials, users, and directories, and allow third-party access to HCL Connections data.
Managing external user access
Manage the access that people from outside your organization (external users) have to your HCL Connections implementation.
Customizing the deployment
Perform optional tasks to customize your HCL Connections deployment.
Hiding email addresses
Configure HCL Connections to prevent email addresses from being displayed in the product to protect the privacy of your users.
Exposing email addresses
Allow email addresses to be displayed in HCL Connections.
Enabling users to set a language preference
By default, the HCL Connections user interface (UI) is displayed in the language that is identified in the locale settings of the web browser. You can set it up to allow users to explicitly select the language in which the product is displayed.
Changing application URLs
Change the context root of URLs that point to HCL Connections applications.
Adding Sametime awareness though the Sametime client
If you have an Sametime® 8.5.2 client or later and the Profiles application deployed, you can enable Sametime® awareness in HCL Connections.
Adding Sametime® awareness through the Sametime® server
If an Sametime® Proxy server is configured in your enterprise and the Profiles application is deployed, you can enable presence awareness and simple chats in HCL Connections.
Disabling applications
You might decide to disable an application temporarily for maintenance or if, for example, you are deploying the product and the application is not yet ready for use.
Disabling the gallery and the grid view of files
Disable the Gallery widget and Files grid view to prevent users selecting the thumbnail view of files.
Disabling microblogging
You can remove microblogging functionality from your deployment by disabling the microblogging service reference in the
LotusConnections-config.xml
file. Microblogging is enabled by default in HCL Connections.
Disabling the social analytics service
The social analytics widgets help users to discover how they are connected to other users and content, and suggest network contacts and content that might interest them. The social analytics service is enabled by default.
Adding or removing sections from the help system's table of contents
If you installed a subset of the HCL Connections applications, remove the help files associated with the applications that you did not install from the help table of contents. If you add an application, or install HCL Connections Mail, you can add that product's help to the table of contents.
Customizing the number of @mentions suggestions
Specify a custom number of suggestions that appear when you use @mentions.
URL Preview
URL preview allows users decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs.
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.
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 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 HCL Connections applications. Search is a required application for all HCL 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 HCL Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
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 HCL products, including
HCL Connections™
.
Customizing the deployment
Perform optional tasks to customize your HCL Connections deployment.
Hiding email addresses
Configure HCL Connections to prevent email addresses from being displayed in the product to protect the privacy of your users.
Exposing email addresses
Allow email addresses to be displayed in HCL Connections.
Enabling users to set a language preference
By default, the HCL Connections user interface (UI) is displayed in the language that is identified in the locale settings of the web browser. You can set it up to allow users to explicitly select the language in which the product is displayed.
Changing application URLs
Change the context root of URLs that point to HCL Connections applications.
Adding Sametime awareness though the Sametime client
If you have an Sametime® 8.5.2 client or later and the Profiles application deployed, you can enable Sametime® awareness in HCL Connections.
Adding Sametime awareness through the Sametime server
If an Sametime® Proxy server is configured in your enterprise and the Profiles application is deployed, you can enable presence awareness and simple chats in HCL Connections.
Disabling applications
You might decide to disable an application temporarily for maintenance or if, for example, you are deploying the product and the application is not yet ready for use.
Disabling the gallery and the grid view of files
Disable the Gallery widget and Files grid view to prevent users selecting the thumbnail view of files.
Disabling microblogging
You can remove microblogging functionality from your deployment by disabling the microblogging service reference in the
LotusConnections-config.xml
file. Microblogging is enabled by default in HCL Connections.
Disabling the social analytics service
The social analytics widgets help users to discover how they are connected to other users and content, and suggest network contacts and content that might interest them. The social analytics service is enabled by default.
Adding or removing sections from the help system's table of contents
If you installed a subset of the HCL Connections applications, remove the help files associated with the applications that you did not install from the help table of contents. If you add an application, or install HCL Connections Mail, you can add that product's help to the table of contents.
Customizing the number of @mentions suggestions
Specify a custom number of suggestions that appear when you use @mentions.
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