You can trigger email digests to be sent to the next available tranche of users in your
deployment by accessing specific HCL
Connections™ URLs and appending the initNextTranche parameter. This parameter should only be used in
development or preproduction environments.
Before you begin
To access the URLs for triggering email digests, you must be assigned the admin role for the
News application. For information about how to assign a person to a role, see Roles.
About this task
In the News repository application, all users are distributed
into tranches to load balance the work of the email digest mechanism.
There are 20 tranches by default, and each hour the next tranche in
the sequence is selected for processing. You can verify that this
process is working correctly by appending the initNextTranche parameter
to the URL for triggering email digests. By including this parameter,
you can trigger email digests to be sent to the next available tranche
of users. When you omit the initNextTranche parameter, the email digest
is sent only to the current, logged-in user.CAUTION: Using
the initNextTranche parameter in a production environment might impact
the schedule of your users. Users might miss some events that occur
on the day or week between when the tranche is kicked off and when
the schedule is supposed to fire. These missing events are included
in the next daily or weekly digest that is sent at the scheduled time.
However, due to the potential disruption to your users’ scheduled
digest, only use the initNextTranche parameter in a development or
preproduction environment.
Procedure
-
Log in to HCL Connections.
- Trigger the email digests by accessing the following
URLs:
- Optional: To initialize a tranche to be sent
to the next set of users, append the following parameter to the URL:
This
parameter takes a boolean value that determines whether the next tranche
of email digests should be initialized. Set the value to true when
you want email digests to be sent out to the next tranche of users.
Omitting the parameter causes the email digest to be sent to the current,
logged-in user.
For example: http://connections.ibm.com:9444/news/web/testEmailDigestSendMail.action?type=weekly&initNextTranche=true