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Introducing Connections
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hcl-software/connections-doc

Introducing Connections
What's new in Connections?
What's new in Connections?
Administering Connections 8.0
Administering Connections 8.0
- Product Overview
  Product Overview
  - What is HCL Connections
  - Supported languages
- Planning
  Planning
- Installing Connections
  Installing Connections
  - The installation process
  - Pre-installation tasks
    
    Pre-installation tasks
    
    Verifying disk space and open file limits before installing HCL Connections
    
    Preparing to configure the LDAP directory
    
    Preparing to configure the LDAP directory
    
    LDAP objectclass/attribute pairings for nested groups
    
    Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server
    
    Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server
    
    Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server
    
    Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server
    
    Determining the number of IBM WebSphere Application Server nodes to install
    
    Installing and configuring the IBM WebSphere Application Server Deployment Manager and nodes
    
    Defining IBM HTTP Server
    
    Defining IBM HTTP Server
    
    Installing IBM HTTP Server and web server plug-ins
    
    Configuring IBM HTTP Server for an encrypted connection
    
    Adding certificates to the WebSphere trust store
    
    Determining which files to compress
    
    Accessing Windows network shares
    
    Setting up federated repositories
    
    Setting up federated repositories
    
    Choosing login values
    
    Disabling WebSphere Application security settings before installing HCL Connections
    
    Configuring WAS for Groups
    
    Configuring WAS for Groups
    
    Deploying nested groups in WAS for Domino LDAP service provider
    
    Deploying nested groups in WAS for Active Directory
    
    Deploying nested LDAP groups in WAS for IBM Security Directory Integrator server
    
    Creating databases
    
    Creating databases
    
    Creating DB2 databases
    
    Creating DB2 databases
    
    Registering the IBM DB2 product license key
    
    Creating a dedicated DB2 user
    
    Configuring Unicode for DB2 databases
    
    Preparing the database wizard for DB2
    
    Using the database wizard for DB2
    
    Using the database wizard in silent mode for DB2
    
    Creating IBM DB2 databases manually
    
    Creating multiple DB2 database instances
    
    Creating multiple DB2 database instances
    
    Creating multiple DB2 database instances on Linux
    
    Creating multiple DB2 database instances on Windows
    
    Enabling NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING for DB2® on System z
    
    Creating Oracle databases
    
    Creating Oracle databases
    
    Configuring Unicode for Oracle databases
    
    Preparing the database wizard for Oracle
    
    Using the database wizard for Oracle
    
    Using the database wizard in silent mode for Oracle
    
    Creating Oracle databases manually
    
    Creating multiple Oracle databases
    
    Creating multiple Oracle databases
    
    Creating multiple Oracle databases on Linux
    
    Creating multiple Oracle databases on Windows
    
    Creating SQL Server databases
    
    Creating SQL Server databases
    
    Configuring Unicode for SQL Server databases
    
    Preparing the database wizard for SQL Server
    
    Using the database wizard for SQL Server
    
    Using the databse wizard in silent mode for SQL Server
    
    Creating SQL Server databases manually
    
    Creating multiple SQL database instances
    
    Populating the Profiles database
    
    Populating the Profiles database
    
    Configuring IBM Security Directory Integrator
    
    Configuring IBM Security Directory Integrator
    
    Deploying Security Directory Integrator into a new install of Connections
    
    Introduction to IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator
    
    Adding source data to the Profiles database
    
    Adding source data to the Profiles database
    
    Using the Profiles population wizard
    
    Using the Profiles population wizard in silent mode
    
    Using the Profiles population wizard in silent mode
    
    The tdisettings.properties file
    
    Manually populating the Profiles database
    
    Manually populating the Profiles database
    
    Setting up the Security Directory Integrator Solutions directory (tdisol)
    
    Security Director Integrator solution properties for Profiles
    
    Batch files for processing Profiles data
    
    Considerations when populating a large user set
    
    Mapping fields manually
    
    Mapping fields manually
    
    Sample complex mappings of Profiles data
    
    Attribute mapping for Profiles
    
    Populating Profiles with photos from LDAP
    
    Configuring the Manager designation in user profiles
    
    Supplemental user data for Profiles
    
    Specifying the global ID attribute for users and groups
    
    Optional: Specifying a custom ID attribute for users or groups
    
    Before installing
    
    Before installing
    
    Linux libraries
  - Installing HCL Connections
    
    Installing HCL Connections
    
    Installing as a non-root user
    
    Installing HCL Connections 8.0
    
    Installing in console mode
    
    Installing silently
    
    Installing silently
    
    Installing HCL Connections in silent mode (with an existing IBM Installation Manager)
    
    Installing HCL Connections and IBM Installation Manager in silent mode
    
    The default response file
    
    The default response file
    
    Using the default response file
    
    Creating a response file
    
    Creating encrypted passwords for a response file
    
    Modifying the installation in interactive mode
    
    Modifying the installation in silent mode
    
    Modifying the installation in silent mode
    
    Adding applications in silent mode
    
    Removing applications in silent mode
    
    Modifying the installation in console mode
- Installing or upgrading Component Pack for Connections
  Installing or upgrading Component Pack for Connections
  - Component Pack offerings
  - Overview of Component Pack architecture
  - Prerequisites for Component Pack
    
    Prerequisites for Component Pack
    
    Sizing the Kubernetes cluster
    
    Sizing the Kubernetes cluster
    
    Sizing for a single-node environment
    
    Sizing for a production-grade cluster
  - Installation and upgrade
    
    Installation and upgrade
    
    Upgrade considerations for Component Pack 8
    
    Upgrade considerations for side-by-side migration of data
    
    Steps to install or upgrade to Component Pack 8
    
    Steps to install or upgrade to Component Pack 8
    
    Installing MongoDB 5 for Component Pack 8
    
    Installing MongoDB 5 for Component Pack 8
    
    Enabling MongoDB Role-Based Access Control
    
    Migrating data from MongoDB 3 to 5
    
    Migrating large-scale data from MongoDB 3 to 5
    
    Migrating data from Elasticsearch 7 to OpenSearch
    
    Installing Component Pack on OpenShift
    
    Installing Component Pack using EKS
  - Helm chart documentation for Component Pack
  - Configuring the Component Pack
    
    Configuring the Component Pack
    
    Configuring the HTTP server
    
    Configuring the Orient Me component
    
    Configuring the Orient Me component
    
    Configuring the HTTP server for Orient Me
    
    Enabling profiles events for Orient Me
    
    Configuring the Top Updates home page
    
    Creating WebSEAL junctions for Orient Me
    
    Enabling and securing Redis traffic to Orient Me
    
    Enabling and securing Redis traffic to Orient Me
    
    Manually configuring Redis traffic to Orient Me
    
    Securing Redis traffic to Orient Me (Linux)
    
    Securing Redis traffic to Orient Me (Windows)
    
    Verifying Redis server traffic
    
    Populating the Top Updates home page
    
    Populating the Top Updates home page
    
    Preparing to migrate data
    
    Migrating the data for the Orient Me home page
    
    Configuring the Customizer component
    
    Configuring the Customizer component
    
    Configuring the NGINX proxy server for Customizer
    
    Configuring Orient Me to support a reverse-proxy server
    
    Configuring SPNEGO for Customizer
    
    Configuring the HTTP server for the App Registry
    
    Creating WebSEAL junctions for Customizer
    
    Changing maximum allowed HTTP header size
    
    Configuring the OpenSearch Metrics component
    
    Configuring the OpenSearch Metrics component
    
    Deploying Opensearch Metrics
    
    Granting access to global Opensearch Metrics
    
    Granting access to Opensearch Metrics for communities
    
    Changing the number of shards for the Opensearch Metrics index
  - Customizing email notifications using the app registry
  - Integrating with other apps
    
    Integrating with other apps
    
    Integrating with Connections Outlook Add-in for Microsoft Outlook
    
    Integrating with Connections Outlook Add-in for Microsoft Outlook
    
    Registering the Connections Add-in for Outlook OAuth application provider
    
    Making the Connections Add-in for Outlook available to users
    
    Integrating with Activities Plus
    
    Integrating with Activities Plus
    
    Installing Activities Plus services
    
    Configuring Activities Plus services
    
    Migrating Activities data
    
    Customizing Activities Plus
    
    Customizing Activities Plus
    
    Adding Activities Plus to a community or home page
    
    Uninstalling Activities Plus
  - Troubleshooting Component Pack installation or upgrade
  - Uninstalling Component Pack
- Post-installation tasks
  Post-installation tasks
  - Registering custom widgets
  - Reviewing the JVM heap size
  - Configuring the community creation wizard
  - Configuring IBM HTTP Server
    
    Configuring IBM HTTP Server
    
    Defining IBM HTTP Server
    
    Mapping applications to IBM HTTP Server
    
    Verifying application mappings
    
    Editing the XML configuration file
    
    Configuring IBM HTTP Server for an encrypted connection
    
    Adding certificates to the WebSphere trust store
    
    Determining which files to compress
    
    Updating HCL Connections to use the HTTP server
    
    Allow Upload To Files Application
    
    Configuring file downloads through IBM® HTTP erver
    
    Configuring file uploads through IBM HTTP Server
    
    Configuring the Home page administrator
  - Configuring additional HCL Connections applications
    
    Configuring additional HCL Connections applications
    
    Setting up type-ahead search
    
    Setting up type-ahead search
    
    Managing the OpenSearch index for Connections type-ahead search
    
    Upgrading OpenSearch 1.x to 2.x in HCL Connections
    
    Installing Customizer Lite
    
    Installing Customizer Lite
    
    Configuring Customizer Lite
    
    Configuring the NGINX proxy server for Customizer Lite HA
    
    Configuring Share Application
    
    Configuring Share Application
    
    Setting up share dialog
    
    Enabling MS Teams within Share
    
    Installing HCL Leap Surveys
    
    Installing HCL Leap Surveys
    
    Installing HCL Leap
    
    Post-installation tasks
    
    Setting up the Leap widgets
    
    Upgrading from Communities Surveys to Leap Surveys
    
    Migrating Community Surveys and response data to Leap Surveys
- Optional: Installing and configuring Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
  Optional: Installing and configuring Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
  - Installing Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    
    Installing Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    
    Optional: Installing Tiny Editors Selector
    
    Optional: Installing Tiny Editors Selector
    
    Installing the Tiny Editors Selector
    
    Starting the Tiny Editors Selector application
    
    Regenerate the webserver plugin
    
    Optional: Installing Tiny Editors Services
    
    Optional: Installing Tiny Editors Services
    
    Configuring the application.conf for the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Configuring the application.conf for the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Create an application.conf for the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Configure access for the Tiny Editors Services through a HTTP proxy
    
    Configuring the SSL certificates for the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Configuring the SSL certificates for the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Create a web-aware trust store for the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Change the default trust store to the Tiny Editors Services trust store
    
    Create a Tiny Editors Services specific SSL configuration
    
    Installing the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Starting the Tiny Editors Services application
    
    Regenerate the webserver plugin
  - Installing the Tiny Editors integration
    
    Installing the Tiny Editors integration
    
    Configuring the Tiny Editors integration
    
    Configuring the Tiny Editors integration
    
    Selecting an editor
    
    Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector roles
    
    Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector editor priority
    
    Modify the Editor CSS
    
    Change Spelling Service URL
    
    Enable or Disable Spellchecking
    
    Change Link Service URL
    
    Enable or Disable Link Validation
    
    Enable or Disable Link Embedding
    
    Customize the Toolbar
    
    Set Fontpicker fonts list
    
    Set Colorpicker colors
    
    Enable or Disable built-in macros
    
    Add custom macros
    
    Where additional customization is required, custom plugins can be loaded into TinyMCE
    
    Configure additional TinyMCE settings
    
    Installing Tiny Editors integration
    
    Installing Tiny Editors integration
    
    Install on Linux or Unix
    
    Install on Windows
    
    Install manually
  - Upgrading Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
  - Modifying Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    
    Modifying Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    
    Selecting an editor
    
    Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector roles
    
    Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector editor priority
    
    Modify the Editor CSS
    
    Change Spelling Service URL
    
    Enable or Disable Spellchecking
    
    Change Link Service URL
    
    Enable or Disable Link Validation
    
    Enable or Disable Link Embedding
    
    Customize the Toolbar
    
    Set Fontpicker fonts list
    
    Set Colorpicker colors
    
    Enable or Disable built-in macros
    
    Add custom macros
    
    Where additional customization is required, custom plugins can be loaded into TinyMCE
    
    Configure additional TinyMCE settings
  - Uninstalling Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    
    Uninstalling Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    
    Uninstalling Tiny Editors Integration
    
    Uninstalling Tiny Editors Integration
    
    Uninstall the Tiny Editors Integration on Linux or Unix
    
    Uninstall the Tiny Editors Integration on Windows
    
    Uninstall the Tiny Editors Integration manually
    
    Uninstalling the Tiny Editors Services
    
    Uninstalling the Tiny Editors Selector
  - Common tasks, concepts and reference information
    
    Common tasks, concepts and reference information
    
    Determine customization path
    
    Restart Common application
    
    Tiny Editor Services configuration
    
    List of valid application.conf settings
    
    Sample application.conf
    
    Disable SSL certificate validation for testing
    
    Toolbar components and the toolbar definition
    
    The default toolbar configuration
    
    The Toolbar customization syntax
    
    List of predefined Toolbar objects
    
    Default fonts list
    
    Sample fonts list configurations
    
    The fonts customization syntax
    
    Default colors list
    
    Sample colors values
    
    The colors customization syntax
    
    External Plugins for TinyMCE
    
    Connections locations for selectively loading plugins
    
    The external plugins customization syntax
    
    Sample config.js
- Optional post-installation tasks
  Optional post-installation tasks
- Uninstalling
  Uninstalling
- Upgrading and updating
  Upgrading and updating
  - Getting ready for upgrading or updating
    
    Getting ready for upgrading or updating
    
    Informing users of an upgrade or update
    
    Backing up Connections
    
    Saving your customizations
  - Ways to upgrade to Connections 8.0
  - Side-by-side upgrades
    
    Side-by-side upgrades
    
    Considerations for a side-by-side upgrade
    
    Sample roadmap for a side-by-side upgrade
    
    Migrating data and updating databases
  - In-place and hybrid upgrades
    
    In-place and hybrid upgrades
    
    Considerations for an in-place or hybrid upgrade
    
    Performing an in-place or hybrid upgrade
  - Updating Connections 8.0 with the latest fixes
    
    Updating Connections 8.0 with the latest fixes
    
    Installing fixes as a non-root user
    
    Downloading fixes
    
    Downloading the latest version of the Update Wizard and updateInstaller
    
    Installing fixes
    
    Installing fixes
    
    Installing fixes in interactive mode
    
    Installing fixes in silent mode
    
    updateSilent command
    
    Uninstalling fixes
    
    Uninstalling fixes
    
    Uninstalling fixes in interactive mode
    
    Uninstalling fixes in silent mode
  - Updating HCL Connections 8.0 with the latest Cumulative Refresh (CR)
    
    Updating HCL Connections 8.0 with the latest Cumulative Refresh (CR)
    
    Updating Connnections 8.0 with the latest Cumulative Refresh
    
    Downloading the latest Cumulative Refresh (CR) and related updates
  - Synchronizing nodes
    
    Synchronizing nodes
    
    Enabling and disabling synchronization
- Administering
  Administering
  - Administering common areas
    
    Administering common areas
    
    Administrator checklist
    
    Administration tools
    
    Administration tools
    
    Starting the wsadmin client
    
    Editing configuration files
    
    Editing configuration files
    
    HCL Connections configuration property values
    
    HCL Connections configuration files
    
    Editing the events-config.xml file
    
    Changing common configuration property values
    
    Changing common configuration property values
    
    Common configuration properties
    
    Common configuration properties
    
    Properties that you can edit by using the wsadmin client
    
    Properties that you can change only by editing the XML file
    
    Applying common configuration property changes
    
    Running administrative commands
    
    Starting or stopping Connections applications
    
    System maintenance
    
    System maintenance
    
    Changing WebSphere Application Server environment variables
    
    Changing WebSphere Application Server environment variables
    
    WebSphere Application Server environment variables
    
    Changing the name of the session cookie ID
    
    Scheduling tasks
    
    Scheduling tasks
    
    Examples of scheduler values
    
    Clearing all scheduled tasks
    
    Maintaining application databases
    
    Maintaining application databases
    
    Gathering DB2 database statistics daily
    
    Improving access performance and defragmenting DB2 database data
    
    Removing nodes from a cluster
    
    Removing nodes from a cluster
    
    Removing nodes from a cluster using the Integrated Solutions Console
    
    Removing nodes from a cluster with the command line
    
    Backing up and restoring data
    
    Managing content
    
    Managing content
    
    Administering application content
    
    Administering community content
    
    Administering Moderation
    
    Administering Moderation
    
    Moderation overview
    
    Moderation overview
    
    Moderation roles
    
    Moderation roles
    
    Designating global moderators
    
    Assigning community owners J2C aliases for moderating
    
    Moderated content states
    
    Managing content moderation and flagged content
    
    Managing content moderation and flagged content
    
    Moderating content before it is published
    
    Moderating published content that is flagged
    
    Managing moderation when email is disabled
    
    Configuring moderation for communities
    
    Administering the display of a site-wide banner
    
    Administering the display of a site-wide banner
    
    Administering the banner using app registry
    
    Administering the banner using Feature Foundation
    
    Administering the Widget container
    
    Administering the Widget container
    
    Administering gadgets for HCL Connections and widgets for Home page
    
    Administering gadgets for HCL Connections and widgets for Home page
    
    Configuring widgets
    
    Enabling widgets
    
    Disabling widgets
    
    Editing widgets
    
    Removing widgets
    
    Gadget registration commands
    
    Configuring OAuth for custom gadgets
    
    Registering HCL Notes as a consumer of the Activity Stream and Embedded Experience gadgets
    
    Configuring per-host proxy access rules for OpenSocial gadgets
    
    Controlling the maximum file upload size for the Connections OpenSocial Container
    
    Clearing the widget cache
    
    Security token properties
    
    Managing access
    
    Managing access
    
    Roles
    
    Roles
    
    Assigning people to Java EE roles
    
    Managing stored credentials
    
    Managing stored credentials
    
    Changing the WebSphere Application Server administrative user ID password
    
    Changing references to database administrative credentials
    
    Changing references to administrative credentials
    
    Switching to unique administrator IDs for system level communication
    
    Updating the messaging bus configuration when the connectionsAdmin user ID changes
    
    Changing administrative credentials for the LDAP global unique ID
    
    Changing the password for the mail administrative user
    
    Managing users
    
    Managing users
    
    User life cycle details
    
    Managing users when the Profiles application is installed
    
    Managing users when the Profiles application is installed
    
    Managing user data using Tivoli Directory Integrator Solution scripts
    
    Managing user data using Tivoli Directory Integrator Solution scripts
    
    Synchronizing the Profiles database with your organization's user data
    
    Synchronizing the Profiles database with your organization's user data
    
    Synchronizing IBM Tivoli Security Directory Server and Microsoft Active Directory LDAP changes
    
    Synchronizing user data between Profiles and the LDAP directory
    
    Understanding how the sync\_all\_dns process works
    
    Improving the performance of the sync\_all\_dns command
    
    Updating Profiles when changing LDAP directory
    
    Deleting or inactivating users in the Profiles database
    
    Customizing the logic used for the delete operation
    
    Managing user data using the Profiles Administration APIs
    
    Managing user data using Profiles administrative commands
    
    Managing users when the Profiles application is not installed
    
    Synchronizing user data by using administrative commands
    
    Synchronizing user data by using administrative commands
    
    Sample user management scenarios
    
    Sample user management scenarios
    
    Improving directory synchronization
    
    Managing personal information in accordance with PI laws
    
    Managing personal information in accordance with PI laws
    
    Managing user requests to erase PI
    
    Deleting or correcting user PI
    
    Using the LDAP directory as the user directory
    
    Using the LDAP directory as the user directory
    
    Using the Profiles database as the user directory
    
    Groups
    
    Managing external user access
    
    Managing external user access
    
    Configuring self-registration for external users
    
    Configuring self-registration for external users
    
    Optional Encoding the LDAP password in self-registration-confg.xml
    
    Optional Encoding the LDAP password in self-registration-confg.xml
    
    Customizing notifications for self-registering users
    
    Registering external users with Profiles
    
    Registering external users with Profiles
    
    Map a standard LDAP attribute for external users
    
    Map a standard LDAP attribute using JavaScript
    
    Use an LDAP branch to store external users
    
    Setting user roles for external collaboration
    
    Customizing the deployment
    
    Customizing the deployment
    
    Hiding email addresses
    
    Exposing email addresses
    
    Enabling users to set a language preference
    
    Adding Sametime awareness through the Sametime server
    
    Enabling Sametime status in the Important to Me Bar
    
    Disabling applications
    
    Disabling the gallery and the grid view of files
    
    Disabling microblogging
    
    Disabling the social analytics service
    
    Adding or removing sections from the help system's table of contents
    
    Customizing the number of @mentions suggestions
    
    URL Preview
    
    URL Preview
    
    Configuring URL preview
    
    URL preview security
  - Administering Activities
    
    Administering Activities
    
    Changing Activities configuration property values
    
    Changing Activities configuration property values
    
    Checking out the Activities configuration files
    
    Activities configuration properties
    
    Applying property changes in Activities
    
    Managing uploaded files
    
    Managing uploaded files
    
    Setting limits on uploaded files
    
    Defining multiple content stores for Activities
    
    Moving the content store
    
    Completing activities that are not being used
    
    Emptying the Activities trash on a schedule
    
    Monitoring statistics and metrics
    
    Monitoring statistics and metrics
    
    Activity statistics
    
    Defining which statistics to collect
    
    Scheduling Activities statistics collection
    
    Purging the Activities log
    
    Managing Activity filters
    
    Running Activities administrative commands
    
    Running Activities administrative commands
    
    Activities administrative commands
    
    Example: admin/Activities administrative session
    
    Getting a list of activities
    
    Narrowing down results
    
    Managing activity membership
    
    Managing activity membership
    
    Retrieving member information
    
    Managing member access to activities
    
    Managing trash
    
    Managing trash
    
    Deleting activities
    
    Restoring deleted activities
    
    Purging specific activities or entries from the trash
    
    Managing the scheduler
    
    Exporting activities
    
    Importing activities
    
    Backing up Activities data
    
    Restoring Activities data
  - Administering Blogs
    
    Administering Blogs
    
    Administering Blogs from the user interface
    
    Administering Blogs from the user interface
    
    Configuring an administrator for Blogs
    
    Managing the Blogs Homepage blog
    
    Specifying site-wide setting for Blogs
    
    Managing a community blog
    
    Administering Blogs users
    
    Administering Blogs using the wsadmin client
    
    Administering Blogs using the wsadmin client
    
    Specifying an administrator email address for Blogs notifications
    
    Changing the blog handle
    
    Replacing URLs in Blogs
    
    Restoring a Community Blog after a Communities database failure
    
    Moderating blog content
    
    Moderating blog content
    
    Moderating Blog comments
    
    Moderated content states for blogs
    
    Managing moderated blog entries and comments
    
    Managing flagged content for a blog
    
    Changing the location of the Blogs File Upload directory
    
    Changing the Blogs referrer policy
    
    Blogs field limits
    
    Extending the list of allowable file types for blogs
    
    Understanding and configuring blog hits and visits
    
    Understanding blog likes, comments, and visits
  - Administering Bookmarks
    
    Administering Bookmarks
    
    Running Bookmarks administrative commands
    
    Running Bookmarks administrative commands
    
    Using administrative commands
    
    Accessing the Bookmarks configuration file
    
    Accessing the Bookmarks configuration file
    
    Bookmarks configuration properties
    
    Applying property changes
    
    Changing the default favicon
    
    Changing the location of the favicon cache
    
    Denoting sites as intranets
    
    Managing links
    
    Managing links
    
    Replacing URLs in bookmarks
    
    Restrict link redirects
    
    Managing multiple Bookmark buttons
  - Administering Communities
    
    Administering Communities
    
    Running Communities administrative commands
    
    Running Communities administrative commands
    
    Communities administrative commands
    
    Changing Communities configuration property values
    
    Changing Communities configuration property values
    
    Communities configuration properties
    
    Applying property changes in Communities
    
    Administering community templates
    
    Administering community templates
    
    Assigning administrators to template management roles
    
    Things to know before creating a community template
    
    Managing community templates
    
    Creating and populating communities
    
    Managing membership in Communities
    
    Managing membership in Communities
    
    Adding owners and members to a community
    
    Adding an alternate owner to Communities
    
    Removing members from communities
    
    Disabling the ability to add members to a community
    
    Limiting the membership size of communities
    
    Managing communities when all owners are inactive
    
    Managing default owner and member permissions
    
    Managing default owner and member permissions
    
    Preventing owners from deleting a community
    
    Preventing members from creating specific community types
    
    Managing community content
    
    Managing community content
    
    Removing unwanted or inappropriate content
    
    Protecting against malicious active content
    
    Moderating the content in a community
    
    Allowing non-community members to comment in forums
    
    Configuring the size of the community description summary
    
    Configuring display settings
    
    Specifying the maximum number of communities to display in user views
    
    Hiding the Start a community button from unauthenticated users
    
    Disabling the My Organization Communities view in Communities
    
    Enabling and disabling the community unique web address option
    
    Reparenting communities
    
    Operations that update the communities time stamp
    
    Working with Community trash
    
    Working with Community trash
    
    Managing Community trash
    
    Configuring community trash settings
    
    Enabling community feeds
    
    Renaming the My Organization communities view
    
    Managing the Communities catalog
    
    Managing the Communities catalog
    
    Configuring the Communities catalog administrator role
    
    Adding sources to the Communities catalog
    
    Managing Communities catalog sources
    
    Adding HCL Connections nodes to the Communities catalog
    
    Configuring Communities catalog settings
    
    Restoring the Communities catalog index
    
    Administering widgets and remote applications
    
    Administering widgets and remote applications
    
    Using the widgets-config.xml file for Communities
    
    Defining mandatory and default widgets for communities
    
    Adding custom widgets to Communities
    
    Adding custom widgets to Communities
    
    Enabling custom widgets for Communities
    
    Communities widget configuration substitution variables
    
    Communities widget configuration substitution variables
    
    Specifying different system users for widget life-cycle events
    
    Administering community queued events
    
    Configuring the widget life-cycle retry schedule
    
    Recovering from a database failure
    
    Recovering from a database failure
    
    Recovering remote Connections applications
    
    Comparing remote application data with the Communities database
    
    Generating a synchronization report
    
    Assigning orphaned remote applications to a community
    
    Deleting orphaned data
    
    Synchronizing remote application data with the Communities database
    
    Configuring Galleries
    
    Managing Communities scheduled tasks
    
    Configuring news event log clean-up
    
    Configuring the Events widget
    
    Retrieving and listing community data
    
    Filtering community lists
  - Administering Files
    
    Administering Files
    
    Enabling sync for files and folders
    
    Managing images and videos for thumbnails and preview
    
    Enabling round-trip editing for files
    
    Administering Push Notification
    
    Changing Files configuration property values
    
    Changing Files configuration property values
    
    Files configuration properties
    
    Configuring MIME types for Files
    
    Applying Files property changes
    
    Running Files administrative commands
    
    Running Files administrative commands
    
    Files administrative commands
    
    Backing up Files data
    
    Backing up Files data
    
    Checking Files data integrity
    
    Synchronizing Files data with Communities data
    
    Displaying files inline
    
    Restricting file types in Files
    
    Setting a maximum size on libraries
    
    Working with Files policies
    
    Seeing Files library information
    
    Filtering lists returned by commands
    
    Printing information returned by commands
    
    Disabling automatic email notification of file updates
    
    Disabling file versioning
    
    Transferring ownership of user files
    
    Disabling transfer of file ownership by users
    
    Deleting user files from the system
    
    Finding the location of a stored file
  - Administering Forums
    
    Administering Forums
    
    Running Forums administrative commands
    
    Running Forums administrative commands
    
    Forums administrative commands
    
    Changing Forums configuration property values
    
    Changing Forums configuration property values
    
    Forums configuration properties
    
    Applying property changes in Forums
    
    Retrieving forum content
    
    Retrieving forum content
    
    Getting a list of forums
    
    Getting a list of forum topics
    
    Filtering lists of forums
    
    Rectifying the count of forums and forum topics
    
    Moderating forums
    
    Managing forum trash
    
    Managing forum trash
    
    Moving forums to the trash
    
    Deleting topics from forums
    
    Restoring deleted forum content
    
    Purging forum trash on a schedule
    
    Purging specific forum content from the trash
    
    Managing Forums scheduled tasks
    
    Managing file attachments in Forums
    
    Managing file attachments in Forums
    
    Setting the maximum number of attachments
    
    Disabling attachments
    
    Setting limits on uploaded Forums files
    
    Enabling topic posting in different deployments
    
    Adding a feed for topics and replies
    
    Restricting topic editing
    
    Allowing non-community members to comment in forums
  - Administering the Home page
    
    Administering the Home page
    
    Administering the Home page from the user interface
    
    Administering the Home page from the user interface
    
    Administering gadgets for HCL Connections and widgets for Home page
    
    Administering gadgets for HCL Connections and widgets for Home page
    
    Configuring widgets
    
    Enabling widgets
    
    Disabling widgets
    
    Editing widgets
    
    Removing widgets
    
    Enabling and disabling the My Page view
    
    Administering the Home page using the wsadmin client
    
    Administering the Home page using the wsadmin client
    
    Home page administrative commands
    
    Forcing the Getting Started view to be the default Home page view
    
    Managing the default view of the home page
  - Administering the News repository
    
    Administering the News repository
    
    Accessing the News configuration file
    
    Accessing the News configuration file
    
    Applying property changes in the News repository
    
    News administrative commands
    
    Synchronizing News data with other applications
    
    Managing scheduled tasks for the News repository
    
    Configuring database clean-up for the News repository
    
    Reallocating and load balancing users according to mail domain
    
    Purging compromised reply-to IDs
    
    Registering third-party applications
    
    Administering microblogs
    
    Administering microblogs
    
    Deleting microblog data
    
    Specifying the maximum size for microblogs
    
    Synchronizing microblog data with Communities
    
    Deleting community microblogs from the News repository
    
    Activity stream search
    
    Activity stream search
    
    Administering activity stream search
    
    Copying the activity stream search index to new nodes
    
    Configuring activity stream search index settings
    
    Restoring the activity stream search index
  - Administering Profiles
    
    Administering Profiles
    
    Running Profiles administrative commands
    
    Running Profiles administrative commands
    
    Profiles administrative commands
    
    Changing Profiles configuration property values
    
    Changing Profiles configuration property values
    
    Profiles configuration properties
    
    Applying property changes in Profiles
    
    Tivoli Directory Integrator Solution commands
    
    Adding supplemental content to Profiles
    
    Adding supplemental content to Profiles
    
    Uploading pronunciation files
    
    Populating Profiles with photos from another Profiles database
    
    Developing custom Tivoli Security Integrator assembly lines for Profiles
    
    Developing custom Tivoli Security Integrator assembly lines for Profiles
    
    Setting up your development environment
    
    Using a custom source repository connector
    
    Using a custom source repository connector
    
    Creating an iterator connector
    
    Creating a lookup connector
    
    Using the ProfileConnector
    
    Using the ProfileConnector
    
    Creating a connector to synchronize Profiles data using LDIF
    
    Synchronizing a subset of Profiles data
    
    Deleting inactive users based on inactive period
    
    Using the PhotoConnector
    
    Using the PronunciationConnector
    
    Using the CodesConnector
    
    Managing profile content
    
    Managing profile content
    
    Excluding nicknames from the Profiles database
    
    Filtering active content in Profiles
    
    Removing inappropriate content
    
    Configuring profile features
    
    Configuring profile features
    
    Configuring the recent updates feature
    
    Configuring the following feature
    
    Configuring the networking feature
    
    Configuring the profile photo feature
    
    Configuring the pronunciation feature
    
    Configuring the reporting structure feature
    
    Configuring the status update feature
    
    Configuring the tagging feature
    
    Configuring widgets in Profiles
    
    Configuring widgets in Profiles
    
    Checking out the widgets-config.xml file for Profiles
    
    Managing widgets in Profiles
    
    Managing widgets in Profiles
    
    Profiles widgets
    
    Configuring the Status Updates widget
    
    Adding custom widgets to Profiles
    
    Adding custom widgets to Profiles
    
    Enabling custom widgets for Profiles
    
    Profiles widget configuration variables
    
    Profiles widget attributes
    
    Configuring Profiles events
    
    Configuring Profiles events
    
    IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator events
    
    Managing Profiles scheduled tasks
    
    Administering cache
    
    Administering cache
    
    Controlling cache operations
    
    Configuring the full reports-to cache
    
    Configuring the Profiles object cache
    
    Managing the Profiles search operation
    
    Monitoring statistics and metrics for Profiles
    
    Monitoring statistics and metrics for Profiles
    
    Enabling and disabling automatic generation of Profiles statistics files
    
    Configuring the vCard export application for Profiles
    
    Making photos cachable in secure environments
    
    Enabling the use of pronunciation files in an HTTPS environment
    
    Managing the Profiles event log
    
    Configuring advanced settings in Profiles
    
    Exposing information about following
    
    Exposing information about following
    
    Changing the display order of the Reporting Structure page
  - Administering Search
    
    Administering Search
    
    Accessing the Search configuration environment
    
    Managing the Search index
    
    Managing the Search index
    
    The indexing process
    
    The indexing process
    
    Investigating file content search issues
    
    Search index directory structure
    
    Adding a service to the search index
    
    Checking fault tolerance during the initial indexing process
    
    Manipulating the resume tokens for HCL Connections services
    
    Creating Search indexes
    
    Creating Search indexes
    
    Creating the initial Search index
    
    Recreating the Search index
    
    Reindexing a component in an existing index
    
    Creating background indexes
    
    Creating background indexes
    
    Performing a background crawl
    
    Extracting file content
    
    Creating a background index
    
    Index settings
    
    Index settings
    
    Enabling indexing resumption
    
    Configuring dictionaries for Search
    
    Configuring dictionaries for Search
    
    Enabling dictionaries
    
    Listing enabled dictionaries
    
    Setting the default dictionary
    
    Disabling dictionaries
    
    Search language dictionaries
    
    Searching over Multiple Languages
    
    Changing the location of the Search index
    
    Configuring J2C authentication for Search
    
    Search and globalization
    
    Verifying Search
    
    Verifying Search
    
    Verifying Search index creation
    
    Verifying that Search is crawling regularly
    
    Verifying that the index is being built incrementally
    
    Verifying file content extraction
    
    Configuring verbose logging
    
    Verifying that index building is not taking place
    
    Adding a new component to an existing index
    
    Configuring scheduled tasks
    
    Configuring scheduled tasks
    
    Search default scheduled tasks
    
    Adding scheduled tasks for Search
    
    Listing scheduled tasks
    
    Listing Search tasks that are currently running
    
    Deleting scheduled tasks for Search
    
    Restoring the default scheduled tasks for Search
    
    Enabling and disabling scheduled tasks
    
    Running one-off tasks
    
    Retrieving file content
    
    Purging content from the index
    
    Reindexing content
    
    Reindexing content on a clustered HCL Connections deployment
    
    Deleting persisted seedlist data
    
    Deleting the index
    
    Listing indexing nodes
    
    Removing a node from the index management table
    
    Backup and restore
    
    Backup and restore
    
    Configuring index backup settings
    
    Backing up the Search index
    
    Backing up the Search index
    
    Backing up the Search index using wsadmin commands
    
    Backing up the Search index manually
    
    Restoring the Search index
    
    Restoring the Search index
    
    Restoring a Search index in a single-node environment
    
    Restoring a Search index in an environment with multiple nodes
    
    Restoring a Search index without restarting individual nodes
    
    Configuring file attachment indexing settings
    
    Configuring file attachment indexing settings
    
    Supported MIME types
    
    Configuring the number of crawling threads
    
    Configuring the number of indexing threads
    
    Boosting search results by tag, title, or recency
    
    Managing the Search application
    
    Managing the Search application
    
    Administering the social analytics service
    
    Administering the social analytics service
    
    Social analytic relationships
    
    Listing social analytics scheduled tasks
    
    Adding scheduled tasks for the social analytics service
    
    Running one-off social analytics scheduled tasks
    
    Tuning social analytics indexing
    
    Creating a background index for the social analytics service
    
    Configuring global properties for the social analytics service
    
    Excluding specific users from the social analytics service
    
    Making search-related configuration changes to newly added nodes
    
    Updating Search work manager settings
    
    Reloading the Search application
    
    Configuring page persistence settings
    
    Avoiding unnecessary full search crawls
    
    Specifying the maximum seedlist page size for a service
    
    Setting the timeout for seedlist requests
    
    Excluding inactive users from search results
    
    Viewing and collecting Search metrics
    
    SearchCellConfig commands
    
    SearchService commands
  - Administering Wikis
    
    Administering Wikis
    
    Changing Wikis configuration property values
    
    Changing Wikis configuration property values
    
    Wikis configuration properties
    
    Configuring MIME types for Wikis
    
    Applying Wikis property changes
    
    Running Wikis administrative commands
    
    Running Wikis administrative commands
    
    Wikis administrative commands
    
    Backing up Wikis data
    
    Backing up Wikis data
    
    Checking Wikis data integrity
    
    Synchronizing Wikis data with Communities data
    
    Restricting attachment file types in Wikis
    
    Setting maximum sizes on media, pages, and attachments
    
    Setting maximum sizes on libraries
    
    Working with Wikis policies
    
    Viewing Wikis library information
    
    Filtering library lists
    
    Printing library information
    
    Disabling wiki page versioning
    
    Deleting wikis from the system
    
    Deleting draft wiki pages
    
    Finding the location of a stored attachment
    
    Displaying file attachments inline
    
    Search Engine Optimization SEO for Wikis
    
    Search Engine Optimization SEO for Wikis
    
    Enabling or disabling SEO
    
    Submitting a sitemap for SEO
    
    Securing SEO
  - Administering Component Pack for Connections
    
    Administering Component Pack for Connections
    
    Backing up and restoring data for OpenSearch indices
    
    Administering MongoDB for Component Pack
- Customizing
  Customizing
  - Customization best practices
  - Injecting customizations into Connections pages
    
    Injecting customizations into Connections pages
    
    About Customizer apps
    
    Managing Connections Customizer apps
    
    Creating a Connections Customizer app
    
    Customizer-specific properties
    
    Customizer-specific properties
    
    Using match: url to refine the path property
    
    Managing file resources used in the "include-files" property
    
    Customizing the user interface
    
    Customizing the user interface
    
    Determining where to save your customizations
    
    Determining where to save your customizations
    
    Language code
    
    Creating custom config extensions
    
    Creating custom config extensions
    
    Enabling the Connections app registry service for customization
    
    Customizing using window-scoped JavaScript objects
    
    Customizing the header
    
    Customizing search
    
    Customizing share
    
    Changing the favicon for Connections apps
    
    Customizing the footer
    
    Customizing product strings
    
    Customizing product strings
    
    Customizing property file strings
    
    Customizing navigation
    
    Customizing navigation
    
    Customizing the side navigation bar
    
    Customizing the welcome tour
    
    Customizing the Important To Me (ITM) bar
    
    Customizing the main content
    
    Customizing the look and feel of HCL Connections
    
    Customizing notifications
    
    Customizing notifications
    
    Customizing basic notification settings CR4 and later
    
    Customizing shared resources for notifications: default templates
    
    Customizing shared resources for notifications: CR4 templates
    
    Editing notification templates
    
    Editing notification templates
    
    Customizing notifications sent as single emails
    
    Customizing notifications sent as single emails
    
    Editing CR4 templates for single emails
    
    Customizing email digests
    
    Customizing email digests
    
    Editing CR4 templates for email digests
    
    CR4 notification template reference
    
    Adding new ways to share content
    
    Adding new ways to share content
    
    Optional features for custom sharing gadgets
    
    Adding a gadget to the Share dialog
    
    Customizing Profiles
    
    Customizing Profiles
    
    Customizing the Profiles data model
    
    Customizing the Profiles data model
    
    Standard properties in the data model
    
    Extension properties in the data model
    
    Extension properties in the data model
    
    Populating custom extension attributes
    
    Enabling custom extension attributes for Profiles
    
    Profile-types
    
    Profile-types
    
    Configuring profile types for widget layout
    
    Person profile-type
    
    Default profile-type
    
    Specifying a custom field as required and declaring maximum field length
    
    Customizing the Profiles user interface
    
    Customizing the Profiles user interface
    
    Customizing display using templates
    
    Customizing display using templates
    
    Customizing profile page display
    
    Customizing business card information
    
    Customizing search results information
    
    Customizing edit display fields
    
    Template data model
    
    Template configuration options
    
    Template configuration options
    
    Configuring template reloading
    
    Configuring template custom resource bundles for processing
    
    Configuring required fields for processing
    
    Specifying properties to expose in the search index
    
    Customizing login attributes
    
    Creating a simple profile data model and template customization
    
    Configuring Profiles directory search options
    
    Using Profiles and Communities business cards
    
    Using Profiles and Communities business cards
    
    Integrating the Communities business card
    
    Integrating the Communities business card
    
    Configuring the Communities business card on a Domino server
    
    Integrating the Profiles business card
    
    Integrating the Profiles business card
    
    Customizing the Profiles business card
    
    Customizing the Profiles business card
    
    Adding third-party links via the XML configuration file
    
    Adding third-party links using JavaScript
    
    Customizing action links on the business card
    
    Customizing the Wikis welcome page
    
    Post-customization step
- Security
  Security
  - Federal Information Processing Standard: FIPS 140:2 Compliance
  - Allowing third party applications access to data via the OAuth2 protocol
    
    Allowing third party applications access to data via the OAuth2 protocol
    
    Managing the client application list
    
    Installing and enabling OAuth TAI
    
    Registering an OAuth client with a provider
    
    Registering an OAuth client with a provider
    
    Authorization Management Commands
    
    CRE Proxy Configuration
    
    Configuring OAuth for custom gadgets
  - Configuring single sign-on
    
    Configuring single sign-on
    
    Setting the single sign-on domain name
    
    Enabling single sign-on with OIDC for Microsoft Azure AD
    
    Enabling single sign-on with OIDC for Microsoft Azure AD
    
    Adding an application in Azure AD for SSO with Connections
    
    Updating WebSphere to support Azure AD OIDC authentication for Connections
    
    Configuring Connections to support Azure OIDC single sign-on
    
    Supporting Azure SSO for mobile clients
    
    Enabling Keycloak as an OIDC provider for Connections
    
    Enabling Keycloak as an OIDC provider for Connections
    
    Configuring KeyCloak as an OIDC provider for Connections
    
    Updating WebSphere to support Keycloak OIDC Authentication for Connections
    
    Configuring Connections to support Keycloak OIDC Authentication
    
    Enabling single sign-on for Security Verify Access
    
    Enabling single sign-on for Security Verify Access
    
    Using WebSEAL for server to server communication
    
    Enabling single sign-on for SiteMinder
    
    Enabling single sign-on for Domino
    
    Enabling single sign-on for standalone LDAP
    
    Enabling single sign-on for the Windows desktop
    
    Enabling single sign-on for the Windows desktop
    
    Mapping an Active Directory account to administrative roles
    
    Creating a service principal name and keytab file
    
    Creating a redirect page for users without SPNEGO support
    
    Configuring SPNEGO and Kerberos optionally on WebSphere Application Server
    
    Configuring web browsers to support SPNEGO
    
    Enabling SPNEGO single sign-on for Security Verify Access
    
    Enabling SPNEGO single sign-on for SiteMinder
    
    The customAuthenticator element for back-end inter-service communication
  - Authentication with SAML
    
    Authentication with SAML
    
    Configuring SAML redirection services for web SSO
    
    Configuring SAML redirection services for web SSO
    
    Configuring SAML for TFIM in WebSphere Application Server
    
    Configuring SAML for ADFS in WebSphere Application Server
    
    Installing the WebSphere Default Application
    
    Verifying the WebSphere Default Application is protected by SAML
    
    Enabling single sign-on for SAML 2.0
    
    Disabling SAML to validate fully functioning integration for third party servers
  - Configuring the AJAX proxy
    
    Configuring the AJAX proxy
    
    Configuring the AJAX proxy for a specific application
    
    Enabling the AJAX proxy to forward user credentials
    
    Configuring the AJAX proxy to work with a pass-through proxy
    
    Configuring the library widget proxy
  - Enabling locked domains
  - Enabling virus scanning
  - Forcing traffic to be sent over an encrypted connection
  - Forcing traffic to use TLS 1.2
  - Configuring HCL Connection to Use TLS v1.3
    
    Configuring HCL Connection to Use TLS v1.3
    
    Installing or migrating to IBM HTTP Server 9.0.5 and latest fixpack
    
    Enabling TLS 1.3 on NGnix with SSL
    
    Forcing traffic to use TLS 1.3
  - Forcing users to log in before they can access an application
  - Securing applications from malicious attack
    
    Securing applications from malicious attack
    
    Active content filters for whitelists
    
    Active content filters for whitelists
    
    Configuring active content filters for whitelists
    
    Configuring active content filters for whitelists
    
    URL protocol rules for whitelists
    
    Element and attribute rules for whitelists
    
    Styling rules for whitelists
    
    Configuring legacy active content filters for legacy ACF
    
    Mitigating a cross site scripting attack
    
    Mitigating a cross site scripting attack
    
    Specifying a separate file download domain
    
    Turning off active content filtering
  - Restricting domains used by the login page redirect parameter
- Mobile
- Developing
- Troubleshooting and support
  Troubleshooting and support
Using Connections 8.0
Using Connections 8.0
- What's new in Connections?
- Overview
  Overview
  - Start collaborating
    
    Start collaborating
    
    Which app do you use?
    
    Connecting with external users
  - Shared features
    
    Shared features
    
    Searching Connections
    
    Searching Connections
    
    Performing a search
    
    Filtering search results
    
    Advanced search terms
    
    Sharing in Connections
    
    Exporting app content as a PDF
    
    Using the rich text editor
    
    Using the rich text editor
    
    Adding an image
    
    Inserting an iFrame
    
    Embedding videos
    
    What are @mentions and #hashtags?
    
    Tagging content
    
    Moderating content
    
    Subscribing to feeds
    
    Viewing metrics
  - Notices
- Home page
  Home page
- Your Profile
  Your Profile
  - Getting started
    
    Getting started
    
    Setting up your profile
  - Sharing your expertise
    
    Sharing your expertise
    
    Sharing a status or file
    
    Posting messages and comments
    
    Adding links to your profile
    
    Tagging profiles
  - Setting your preferences
    
    Setting your preferences
    
    Personalizing your Home page view
    
    Getting browser and email notifications
    
    Giving apps access to your data
    
    Configuring your language settings
  - Discovering people
    
    Discovering people
    
    Viewing profiles
    
    Viewing network contacts
    
    Finding things in common
    
    Viewing your connections
- People
  People
  - Getting started
    
    Getting started
    
    Searching for people
    
    Inviting a person to your network
  - Growing your network
    
    Growing your network
    
    Following people
    
    Adding people to your network
    
    Getting recommendations
- Activities
  Activities
  - Getting acquainted
    
    Getting acquainted
    
    Onboarding a new hire
    
    Coordinating a project
    
    Planning an event
  - Getting started
    
    Getting started
    
    Creating an activity
    
    Doing more with a to-do
    
    Doing more with an entry
    
    Organizing content
    
    Notifying your members
  - Going further
    
    Going further
    
    Updating membership
    
    Prioritizing activities
    
    Copying an activity
    
    Creating and editing a template
    
    Linking to a single entry
    
    Saving an activity as a spreadsheet
- Files
  Files
  - Getting started
    
    Getting started
    
    Uploading a file
    
    Downloading a file
    
    Viewing a file
  - Managing files and folders
    
    Managing files and folders
    
    Using folders
    
    Finding files fast
    
    Moving files and folders
    
    Transferring a file to a new owner
    
    Deleting files and folders
    
    Downloading folders
  - Collaborating on files and folders
    
    Collaborating on files and folders
    
    Sharing files and folders
    
    Working with files
    
    Working with folders
  - Organizing, syncing, and editing files in My Drive
  - Editing a Connections file in HCL Docs
  - Editing a Connections file in Microsoft Office
- Communities
  Communities
  - Getting started
    
    Getting started
    
    What is a community?
    
    Searching for and browsing in communities
    
    Joining a community to contribute your expertise
    
    Creating a community to encourage collaboration
  - Members ‐ use your community effectively
    
    Members ‐ use your community effectively
    
    Finding out what's going on
    
    Finding out what's going on
    
    Seeing who's in a community and communicating with them
    
    Viewing updates in your community
    
    Unsubscribing from community emails
    
    Sharing related communities with other members
    
    Communicating with community members
    
    Communicating with community members
    
    Blogging your point of view
    
    Blogging your point of view
    
    Contributing to a community blog
    
    Sharing ideas in an ideation blog
    
    Getting the discussion going in a forum
    
    Getting the discussion going in a forum
    
    Browsing forums
    
    Adding topics to a forum
    
    Creating information in a community wiki
    
    Creating information in a community wiki
    
    Creating a wiki page
    
    Working with wiki pages
    
    Enhancing collaboration
    
    Enhancing collaboration
    
    Sharing information in community files
    
    Sharing information in community files
    
    Sharing community files and folders
    
    Managing community files
    
    Assigning tasks in a community activity
    
    Bookmarking important places
    
    Scheduling events
    
    Adding a feed to a community
  - Owners ‐ manage your community effectively
    
    Owners ‐ manage your community effectively
    
    Adding members to grow your community
    
    Adding members to grow your community
    
    Adding or removing members
    
    Inviting people to join
    
    Importing multiple members
    
    Exporting community membership
    
    Membership roles ‐ who does what
    
    Managing your community to keep it relevant
    
    Managing your community to keep it relevant
    
    Moderating community content
    
    Changing your community's access level
    
    Assigning app roles for community members
    
    Enabling your community's PDF export access
    
    Creating subcommunities to reflect organizational change
    
    Moving communities
    
    Moving communities
    
    Moving a community to become a subcommunity of another community
    
    Moving a subcommunity to become a top-level community
    
    Deleting unwanted communities
    
    Copying a community structure
    
    Keeping your apps contemporary
    
    Keeping your apps contemporary
    
    Adding apps to increase capabilities
    
    Adding apps to increase capabilities
    
    Adding the SharePoint app to a community
    
    Sharing information in a community blog
    
    Sharing information in a community blog
    
    Adding a blog to your community
    
    Managing your community blog
    
    Getting ideas flowing with an ideation blog
    
    Adding forums to get the discussion going
    
    Keeping your community activities up-to-date
    
    Organizing content in community files
    
    Organizing content in community files
    
    Managing community folders
    
    Managing deleted files
    
    Working with rich content
    
    Working with rich content
    
    Adding rich content pages to a community
    
    Managing rich content pages
    
    Highlighting content in galleries
    
    Highlighting content in galleries
    
    Organizing gallery files
    
    Configuring a gallery to display files and folders
    
    Measuring business value with metrics
    
    Measuring business value with metrics
    
    Global and community metrics
    
    Viewing metrics reports
    
    Customizing the Highlights page
    
    Customizing the Highlights page
    
    Adding apps and widgets to the Highlights page
    
    Managing apps and widgets on the Highlights page
    
    Configuring a Highlights widget
    
    Removing apps on the Highlights page
  - Building and integrating HCL Leap applications into Connections
- Blogs
  Blogs
  - Contributing to a blog
    
    Contributing to a blog
    
    Creating a blog
    
    Creating an entry
    
    Editing or deleting an entry
    
    Adding files and links
  - Connecting with other blogs
    
    Connecting with other blogs
    
    Posting a comment
    
    Liking an entry
    
    Finding a blog or entry
    
    Following a blog
    
    Notifying a user about a blog entry
    
    Flagging an entry as inappropriate
  - Managing a blog
    
    Managing a blog
    
    Managing roles and permissions
    
    Creating an announcement
    
    Managing entries and comments
    
    Editing general blog settings
    
    Deleting a blog
    
    Resigning from a blog
  - Blogging within a community
    
    Blogging within a community
    
    Creating a community blog
    
    Using an Ideation Blog
- Forums
  Forums
  - Finding and participating in forums
    
    Finding and participating in forums
    
    Adding forum topics
    
    Posting questions and answers to a forum
    
    Responding to forum topics
    
    Editing, moving, or deleting forum content
    
    Following forums and forum topics
    
    Flagging forum content as inappropriate
  - Creating and managing forums
    
    Creating and managing forums
    
    Creating a forum
    
    Forum moderation
    
    Adding more owners to a forum
    
    Pinning forum topics
    
    Locking forums and forum topics
    
    Deleting forums
- Wikis
  Wikis
- Bookmarks
  Bookmarks
  - Getting started
    
    Getting started
    
    What can you do with Bookmarks?
    
    Creating a bookmark
    
    Installing the bookmark button
  - Bookmark basics
    
    Bookmark basics
    
    Copying a bookmark
    
    Adding bookmarks to your watchlist
    
    Flagging a bookmark as broken
    
    Notifying other users about a bookmark
  - Going further
    
    Going further
    
    Importing bookmarks from a web browser
    
    Exporting bookmarks to a file
    
    Creating a feed from a Bookmarks view
    
    Adding a bookmark list to a web page
Integrating with other products
Integrating with other products
- Connections Engagement Center
  Connections Engagement Center
  - Overview
    
    Overview
    
    Get started
    
    Roles
    
    Adding the Engagement Center widget to a Community
    
    Admin dashboard
    
    Admin dashboard
    
    Caching for Admins
    
    Open Community Links in new Tab
    
    Debugging
    
    Handling external images
    
    Admin panel
    
    Admin panel
    
    Grid and layout
    
    Custom CSS and images
    
    Include Custom.js
    
    Customize the language file
    
    Direct Edit css and js and json files
    
    Include your Favicon
    
    Create widgets
    
    Integration of the Navigation
    
    Access rights for pages
    
    Page Management
    
    Page Management
    
    Creating new or multiple pages
    
    Page import and export
    
    Anonymous access
    
    Templating and inheritance
    
    Widgets
    
    Widgets
    
    Widget images and titles
    
    Widget images and titles
    
    Teaser
    
    Language-based widget titles
    
    Configure image for widget titles
    
    HCL Connections widgets
    
    Activity Stream
    
    ATOM/RSS feed
    
    Clipping
    
    Bookmark List
    
    Bookmarks List ‐ Important
    
    Bookmarks List ‐ Important
    
    Community Description
    
    Community Members
    
    Featured Communities
    
    Event
    
    Files List
    
    Folders
    
    Forum Viewer
    
    HTML
    
    Ideation Blog
    
    IFrame
    
    Media Gallery
    
    My Communities
    
    My Files
    
    My Links
    
    My Notes
    
    My Pinned Files
    
    My Quicklinks
    
    Navigation
    
    News
    
    News ‐ Channel
    
    News ‐ List
    
    News ‐ Overview
    
    News ‐ Slider
    
    News ‐ Top
    
    People Birthday
    
    People Finder
    
    People Selector
    
    Popular Content
    
    Preferences
    
    Profile Completion
    
    Profile Picture
    
    Profile Tagging
    
    Rich Content
    
    Saved Search
    
    Static Content ‐ Blog
    
    Static Content ‐ Wiki
    
    Suggestions
    
    Tag Cloud
    
    Teaser
    
    Embedded experience
    
    Anonymous access
    
    FlyOut page
    
    Personalization
    
    Personalize homepage
    
    Creating a custom widget with the custom widget API
    
    Functions ‐ fields ‐ buttons
    
    Best practices
    
    Best practices
    
    Roles and restrictions in source communities
    
    Picture guidelines
  - Installing and configuring Connections Engagement Center
    
    Installing and configuring Connections Engagement Center
    
    Upgrading
    
    Upgrading
    
    Upgrading Highlights to Engagement Center
    
    Planning
    
    Planning
    
    Modes
    
    Authorized roles
    
    Authorized roles
    
    On premises mode
    
    Flyout mode
    
    Community mode
    
    Anonymous mode
    
    Mobile mode
    
    Creating a database
    
    Creating a database
    
    Using DB2 as a database
    
    Using DB2 as a database
    
    Creating a DB2 database for Windows
    
    Creating a DB2 database for Linux
    
    Creating a DB2 JDBC provider ((optional))
    
    Using MSSQL as a database
    
    Using MSSQL as a database
    
    Creating an MSSQL database
    
    Creating an MSSQL JDBC provider ((optional))
    
    Using Oracle as database
    
    Using Oracle as database
    
    Creating an Oracle database
    
    Creating an Oracle JDBC provider ((optional))
    
    Migrating a database
    
    Installing
    
    Installing
    
    Installing Connections Engagement Center
    
    Enable trace logs to analyze errors ((optional))
    
    Mapping security roles
    
    Configuring
    
    Configuring
    
    General configuration
    
    Mode configuration
    
    Mode configuration
    
    Anonymous mode configuration
    
    Anonymous mode configuration
    
    Community on-premises mode configuration
    
    Community on-premises mode configuration
    
    Updating the widgets-config.xml file
    
    Updating the LotusConnections-config.xml file
    
    Creating string properties files
    
    Registering with the Widget Container on the Homepage
    
    Publishing the community configuration
    
    Flyout mode configuration
    
    Mobile mode configuration
    
    Changing the name of the LTPA cookie (optional)
    
    Adding a link to the HCL Connections navigation bar
    
    People Birthday widget
    
    Customize labels for languages
    
    Edit personalization attributes
    
    HCL Connections proxy configuration
    
    Landing page configuration
    
    Rebuilding the search index of HCL Connections
    
    Import and export of XML files
    
    Internet Explorer compatibility mode
    
    Debugging
    
    URLs to access Connections Engagement Center
- Installing integration plug-ins for HCL Connections
  Installing integration plug-ins for HCL Connections
  - HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows
    
    HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows
    
    Performing a user installation
    
    Performing a silent installation
    
    Repairing or removing the HCL Connections Desktop plug-ins
    
    Preferences and policies for the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows
    
    Managing policies and preferences with a group policy
    
    Customizing the branding strings and images for the desktop plug-in
    
    Connecting to an HCL Connections or Connections Multi-tenant site
    
    Setting preferences for HCL Connections plug-ins for Microsoft Windows
  - HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft Outlook
    
    HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft Outlook
    
    HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft Outlook System Requirements
    
    Installing via Component pack or Standard Install
    
    Installing via Component pack or Standard Install
    
    Installing HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft Outlook with Component Pack
    
    Installing and configuring HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft Outlook Standalone Install
    
    Upgrading Component Pack Outlook Add-in with a Standalone docker image
  - HCL Connections for Mac
    
    HCL Connections for Mac
    
    Performing a user installation
    
    Performing a silent installation
    
    Policies and preferences for HCL Connections for Mac
    
    Uninstalling the HCL Connections for Mac plug-in
    
    Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
    
    Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
    
    Managing HCL Connections for Mac accounts
    
    Setting preferences for the Mac plug-in
    
    Adding a file to HCL Connections for Mac
    
    Sharing a file or folder
    
    Managing file versions
    
    Suspending file sync
    
    Viewing and resolving sync issues
  - HCL Connections Plug-ins for HCL Notes
    
    HCL Connections Plug-ins for HCL Notes
    
    Upgrading the HCL Notes client after installing Connection plug-ins for HCL Notes
    
    Installing the HCL Connections Plug-ins for HCL Notes
    
    Customizing the installation of the HCL Connections plug-ins
    
    Connecting to a Connections or a Connections Cloud server
    
    Configuring and troubleshooting SPNEGO for the Notes plug-in
    
    Uninstalling the HCL Connections Plug-ins for HCL Notes
- Using the HCL Connections desktop plug-ins for Microsoft Windows
  Using the HCL Connections desktop plug-ins for Microsoft Windows
- Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
  Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
- Using the Connections plug-in for Microsoft Office
  Using the Connections plug-in for Microsoft Office
  - Accessing Connections content from Microsoft Office
    
    Accessing Connections content from Microsoft Office
    
    Adding Office content to Connections
    
    Working with Office documents in a library
    
    Adding Connections content to Word documents
    
    Searching from Office for HCL Connections content
- Setting up Connections and Microsoft Teams integration
  Setting up Connections and Microsoft Teams integration
- Using Connections and Microsoft Teams together
- Using the HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft Outlook
  Using the HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft Outlook
- Using the HCL Connections community app for Microsoft Sharepoint
  Using the HCL Connections community app for Microsoft Sharepoint
  - Configuring the Sharepoint app in Microsoft Azure AD
  - Configuring the Sharepoint app in Connections
- Using plug-ins from HCL Connections with other products
  Using plug-ins from HCL Connections with other products
  - Using the HCL Connections Status Updates Plug-in for HCL Notes
    
    Using the HCL Connections Status Updates Plug-in for HCL Notes
    
    Working with Status Updates
  - Using the HCL Connections Files plug-in for Notes
    
    Using the HCL Connections Files plug-in for Notes
    
    Uploading a file in Connections
    
    Sharing a file
    
    Locking files in Connections
    
    Searching for files
    
    Opening Files in a new window or in a browser
    
    Setting HCL Connections server preferences for Files
  - Using the HCL Connections Activities plug-in for HCL Notes
Guide Me
Guide Me
- How to guides
  How to guides

Mobile

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