Edit configuration property settings to allow users to
go straight to ActivityStream instead of Getting
Started.
About this task
Configure
ActivityStream to be the default view instead of
Getting Started. This configuration implements the following changes:
- Update the initial redirect
- Remove the check box option for Getting Started page
You can edit configuration properties in
LotusConnections-config.xml to
redirect to
ActivityStream.
Procedure
To redirect to Activity Stream complete
the following steps.
-
Create a directory (referenced in this procedure as working_directory) to
store the configuration files that you update. For example, on Windows create
C:\temp.
-
Use the wsadmin client to access and check out the IBM®
Connections configuration files:
-
Enter the following command to load the HCL Connections
configuration file: execfile("connectionsConfig.py")
If you are prompted to
specify a service to connect to, type 1 to
select the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node.
If the command writes or reads information to or from a file by using
a local file path, you must select the node where the file is stored.
This information is not used by the wsadmin client when you are making
configuration changes.
- Enter the following command
to check out HCL Connections
configuration files:
LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory","cell_name")
- Open LotusConnections-config.xml in
a text editor.
- To enable Activity Stream as the
default view add the following property to LotusConnections-config.xml,
before the closing tag for the file:
<properties>
<genericProperty name="homepage.gettingstarted.bypass">true</genericProperty>
</properties>
Note: If the <properties>
tag,
is already present, add genericProperty
to
it.
Note: If both homepage.default.widgets
and
homepage.gettingstarted.bypass
are set to
true, then users go directly to /homepage/web/widgets/when
they log in (bypassing Getting Started).
- Save LotusConnections-config.xml.
-
Stop the Home Page Application in WebSphere Console.
-
Update the version stamp in LotusConnectionsConfig.xml:
LCConfigService.updateConfig("versionStamp","")
-
Check in the configuration file during the same wsadmin session in which you checked it out for
your configuration changes to take effect:
LCConfigService.checkInConfig("working_directory","cell_name")
-
Restart the Home Page Application in WebSphere Console.
Results
The Getting Started page is bypassed, instead users to go straight to
ActivityStream.