Allow users who are not community members to comment in
forums in public or moderated communities.
Before you begin
To run
administrative commands, you must use the wsadmin client. For more
information, see Starting
the wsadmin client.
About this task
By editing settings in the forum-config.xml file,
you can allow users who are not community members to comment in forums
in public or moderated communities.Procedure
To allow users who are not community members to comment
in forums in public or moderated communities, complete the following
steps:
- Start the wsadmin client from the following
directory on the system where you installed the Deployment Manager:
app_server_root/profiles/dm_profile_root/bin
where dm_profile_root is
the Deployment Manager profile directory, typically dmgr01.You
must start the client from this directory or else subsequent commands
that you enter might fail.
- Start the Forums Jython script interpreter.
- Use the following command
to access the Forums configuration file:
execfile("forumsAdmin.py")
If you are prompted to specify
a service to connect to, enter 1 to select
the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If
the command specifies a file by using a local file path, select the
node where the file is stored.
- Check out the Forums configuration
files by using the following command:
ForumsConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory",
"cell_name")
where:
- working_directory is the temporary working
directory to which the XML and XSD configuration files are copied.
The files are kept in this working directory while you modify them.
Note: AIX®,
IBM i, and Linux only:
The directory must grant write permissions or the command fails.
- cell_name is the name of the WebSphere® Application Server cell that
hosts the IBM® Connections applications.
This argument is required. It is also case-sensitive, so type it with
care. If you do not know the cell name, you can determine it by typing
the following command in the wsadmin command processor:
print
AdminControl.getCell()
For example:
ForumsConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/my_temp_dir",
"ForumServerNode01Cell")
- Open the forum-config.xml file with
a text editor.
- Edit the enableNonMembercontributor element in the deployment
section of the file. The default value is false.
For example, to set the value to true, edit the file as follows:
<deployment
enableCategory="false" enableLotusLive="false" enableNonMemberContributor="true"/>
- Save your changes and close the forum-config.xml file.
- Check in the configuration files during the same wsadmin
session in which you checked them out. For information about how to
save and apply your changes, see Applying property changes in
Forums.