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.
Before you begin
Sync is available on the client by default, but it is only
enabled visibly when users connect to a site that has sync enabled.
Being able to synchronize files is dependent on the desktop plug-ins
being installed on users' clients.Note: Sync should be configured
before the desktop clients are configured. If sync is configured
after the desktop client plug-ins, users will have to refresh their
server configuration manually.
About this task
To ensure that Sync is enabled in Files, perform the following
steps:Procedure
- Check out files-config.xml by following
the first two steps described in Changing
Files configuration property values.
- Locate the fileSync section in the files-config.xml file
as follows:
<fileSync enabled="true">
<clientDownloadLink enabled="true"
url="http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/ibm/connections/IBMConnectionsMSDesktop.zip"/>
<autoVersioning enabled="true"/>
</fileSync>
Where - The clientDownloadLink url must be the valid
url to download the file sync client.
- autoVersioning must be enabled to avoid generating
too many versions.
- Check in files-config.xml by following
the first three steps described in Applying Files
property changes.
- Make sure the filesync-user alias
is mapped to correct users as follows:
- From the WebSphere Application Server administrative console,
navigate to . In this view, click Files to
go to the Configuration tab, select Security
role to user/group mapping.
- Make sure filesync-user is mapped to the
correct users. You can choose to map to specific users/groups, or
simply map it to All Authenticated in Application's Realm.
- Configure throttling for Sync. The default value
is set to 50, the maximum number of concurrent
requests that are allowed on one WebSphere node to handle file synchronization
requests.
- Open the LotusConnections-config.xml and
add or change the value for this setting based on your needs
<properties>
<genericProperty name="com.ibm.lconn.files.api.throttler.filesync">50</genericProperty>
</properties>
Note: You might consider starting
with a value that is 1/3 of the total of Web Container thread to limit
the maximum number of concurrent file sync requests. It also can be
used to ensure that enough threads are available to service web application
requests and typical file upload and download activity.
- If you changed the Sync setting, restart the Files application.