Perform management tasks for the Communities catalog by using the options available from
the administrative user interface.
Before you begin
To manage the Communities catalog, you must log in as the catalog administrator. For more
information about this role, see Configuring the Communities catalog
administrator.
About this task
Note: In clustered environments, Communities catalog administration is on the primary node. If you
see a message that says that the primary node is not available, you can switch the catalog
administration to a secondary node.
Procedure
- Log in to IBM® Connections
as the catalog administrator.
- Click any option under Communities and then select Administration from
the navigation sidebar.
- Perform one or more of the following tasks:
- To see the number of items (communities or places), see the Number
of items column.
- To see the status of a source (available or not), see the Status
column.
- To edit a source, click Edit Details.
- To manage source metadata collection, click More
actions and then perform any of the following tasks:
- To have this source crawled for new data to collect now, select Collect
Data.
- To delete the metadata for the source from the index, select Clear
Data.
- To disable future scheduled metadata collections, select Disable
Schedule. This action stops future collections, but does
not delete existing metadata from the index.