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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.
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.
Modifying Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
Modify the Tiny editors TinyMCE and Textbox.io to customize your editing experience.
Enable or Disable Link Embedding
This section describes the process for enabling and disabling automatic media embedding in the Tiny Editors.

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
  HCL Connections 7.0 now supports the latest Component Pack based in Harbor, an open-source container and Helm registry hosted by HCL for the Component Pack build. Deployments that are new or carrying Component Pack 7 will use this approach for a simplified installation/upgrade process, while releases prior to 7.0 will first need to upgrade to Component Pack 7 using a zip file and a local Docker registry.
- 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.
  - Installing Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    Install the Tiny editors: TinyMCE and Textbox.io, to get a powerful editing experience inside HCL Connections™ with a streamlined user-interface and unparalleled customization.
  - Upgrading Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    Instructions for upgrading Tiny Editors for HCL Connections to the latest version.
  - Modifying Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    Modify the Tiny editors TinyMCE and Textbox.io to customize your editing experience.
    - Selecting an editor
      This option is used to select the editor for HCL Connections™. If the Tiny Editors Selector service is installed, you can choose to assign the editor based on user or security group.
    - Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector roles
      Assigning an editor to users or roles is performed by configuring the Tiny Editors Selector service. This step can also be done after installation of Tiny Editors for HCL Connections is complete.
    - Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector editor priority
      Assigning the editor priority is performed by configuring the Tiny Editors Selector service. This step can also be done after the installation of Tiny Editors for HCL Connections is complete.
    - Modify the Editor CSS
      Customizing the look of HCL Connections™ using custom CSS.
    - Change Spelling Service URL
      If the Tiny Editor Services are not running on the same server as HCL Connections™, the spelling service URL is required.
    - Enable or Disable Spellchecking
      This section describes the process for enabling and disabling the use of the Tiny Editors Services spelling service.
    - Change Link Service URL
      If the Tiny Editor Services are not running on the same server as HCL Connections™, the link service URL is required.
    - Enable or Disable Link Validation
      This section describes the process for enabling and disabling the Tiny Editors use of the Tiny Editors Services hyperlinking service for link validation.
    - Enable or Disable Link Embedding
      This section describes the process for enabling and disabling automatic media embedding in the Tiny Editors.
    - Customize the Toolbar
      The section covers customizing the Tiny Editors toolbar (not including contextual items).
    - Set Fontpicker fonts list
      The section covers customizing the list of fonts provided for the font-picker in the Tiny Editors.
    - Set Colorpicker colors
      Customize the colors shown in the Tiny Editors colorpicker, and to keep or remove the custom color picker.
    - Enable or Disable built-in macros
      This section covers enabling or disabling the Tiny Editors built-in macros: useful text styling macros.
    - Add custom macros
      Creating simple macros to provide useful work shortcuts.
    - Where additional customization is required, custom plugins can be loaded into TinyMCE.
      Where additional customization is required, custom plugins can be loaded into TinyMCE.
    - Configure additional TinyMCE settings
      TinyMCE has many options not configured by the integration and they can be set by providing them in the additional settings object.
  - Uninstalling Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    Completely removes Tiny Editors for HCL Connections to restore HCL Connections™ to the base state or to allow a clean upgrade to a newer version.
  - Common tasks, concepts and reference information
    Common tasks, concepts and reference information.
- 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.
- 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™.

Enable or Disable Link Embedding

This section describes the process for enabling and disabling automatic media embedding in the Tiny Editors.

Before you begin

Before you begin: The Tiny Editor Services must be installed and to use the hyperlinking service for media embedding it must not be disabled in the application.conf.

Procedure

Using a plain text editor, open customization_path/javascript/tiny/editors/connections/config.js.
Note: Use a plain text editor to avoid inserting invalid formatting or symbols into config.js. Do not use a rich text editor such as Microsoft Word for editing configuration files.
Locate the property linkEmbedEnabled such as linkEmbedEnabled: true, and set it to:
- true to allow the Tiny Editors to embed media links using the hyperlinking service.
- false to stop the Tiny Editors from embedding media links using the hyperlinking service.
When you have finished making configuration changes, follow the post-customization steps to ensure the server cache is updated.

Note: If the configuration changes do not take affect, restart the Common enterprise application to force a cache update.