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.
The following sections document the areas of the product that you can configure and administer. Refer to an application-specific section for information about administering that application. Settings that apply to all of the applications are described in the Administering common areas section of the documentation.
The following features are new or updated in version 5.0.
IBM® Connections (common):
- The New (or Next Generation) theme that was introduced as an optional customization in 4.5 CR 1 is now the default theme in 5.0.
- External users are supported in version 5.0. For more information, see Managing external user access.
Activities:
- There are no new or updated administration features for the Activities application in this release.
Communities:
- In version 5.0 when a user deletes a community, it is not deleted permanently, rather it is moved to a trash area. Provided it is not purged from trash, the community can be restored. Managing Community trash and Configuring community trash settings show you how to manage community trash settings such as the delete trash schedule, and the community delete trash interval.
- Use the reparenting commands to modify a community to become a subcommunity of another
community. You can also modify a subcommunity to become a top-level community. For more information,
see Reparenting communities
Release CR2 adds IBM Docs support to Connections Content Manager. Users can edit a CCM (FileNet®) document using the IBM Docs editors, wherever the CCM document is exposed in the IBM Connections. Release CR2 also includes a new view option ('grid view') to Libraries and Linked Libraries. Finally, CR2 enalbes external users to view and create content in Connections Content Manager libraries
Files:
- Enable Sync for files in the Files application so that users can so work offline with files in the Sync folder and keep them synchronized when others are collaborating on them.
- External users from outside your company or organization can collaborate on files shared with them.
- Comments in Files supports the use @mentions, a method of notifying colleagues of a post.
- The Thumbnail view is a gallery of images that represent files. The thumbnail shows the file's status (private, community, or shared externally), sync status, and whether version conflicts might exist. Hovering over a thumbnail image opens its reverse side where file details appear and actions to download and preview are available.
- File Preview becomes available when you click anywhere on the back of the thumbnail to get an advance viewing of the file. The file preview should give you enough information about the file's content to decide whether you want to download it.
Forums:
- There are no new or updated administration features for the Forums application in this release.
News:
- URL preview allows users to decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs. You can now edit og-config.xml in the LotusConnections-Config directory to configure both the URL preview oEmbed and thumbnail end-points. For more information, see URL Preview.
Profiles:
- You can now exclude nicknames when adding or updating user profiles by specifying a new name.expansion property in the tdi-profiles-config.xml file.
- You can use the new mapToNameTable property in the profiles-types.xml file to specify an additional givenname or surname value for use with Profiles directory search.
- You can integrate the Profiles business card with your web application by mapping an LDAP distinguished name, using the DN parameter; in addition to the previously available user ID and email mapping options.
- The hashEmail extended attribute can be added to the map_dbrepos_from_source.properties file or profileExtension table in the tdi-profiles-config.xml file to support Profiles users in conjunction with the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector. For related information, see Using the IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows.
- If you use the new External Collaboration feature, new MBean commands allow you to set and retrieve user roles: visitor, employee, and employee.extended.
Search:
- Adding a new component to an existing index - you can now add new components to the index that were not included when the index was built.
- Adding a service to the search index - you can now update the Search index with data from a newly added service.
- In this release, you can review the serverStatus web page to determine whether any exceptions occurred while building an initial index. For more information, see Checking fault tolerance during the initial indexing process.
- The Search application now provides globalization support by using different dictionaries for different languages. For more information, see Searching over Multiple Languages.
- Use the Search application to update the resume tokens for components in an index. When this index is then used as the foreground index, crawling of the components resumes from the time and date that is specified in the updated resume tokens. For more information, see Manipulating the resume tokens for IBM Connections services.
- In IBM Connections 5.0, you can improve search quality by Boosting search results by tag, title, or recency
Wikis:
- There are no new or updated administration features for the Wikis application in this release.