Administering application content
To view and control content in your deployment, you can create a dedicated global administrator or administrators with administrative capabilities over content in the applications.
Global administrator capabilities
A global administrator can edit and remove objectionable content. The Moderation feature can help this process, but not all components implement Moderation. Also, although some wsadmin commands can be helpful with removing objectionable content, they do not cover all situations. For example, when the only Owner of, for example, an activity or community, leaves the organization or is away for an extended time period, the Global Administrator can add more owners and even replace the original owner.
Application | Administrative capabilities | Steps |
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Activities |
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To view and control Activities content:
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Blogs and Ideation Blogs |
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To view and control Blogs and Ideation Blogs
content:
When the user logs into Blogs or Ideation Blogs, they see an Administration tab where they can configure administration settings. |
Bookmarks |
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There is no way to create a comparable administrator for Bookmarks. However, adding a user to the Java EE search-admin role allows that user to see any bookmark in Bookmark search results. Any administrator can use the Bookmarks wsadmin commands to remove unwanted links from the Bookmarks application. |
Communities |
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To view and control Communities content, follow steps in Administering Communities content. |
Files |
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To view and control Files content:
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Forums |
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To view and control Forums content:
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Home page |
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Users with the Home page administrator role have access to an extra Administration view on their Home page. When you are assigned this role, you can see an Administration option in the navigation sidebar, under the My Page option. Select this option to access a simple, form-based user interface where you can carry out key tasks. |
News |
Events are generated by the various IBM® Connections applications whenever an activity occurs in the system. Information about these events is stored in the News repository. The Home page application pulls data from the repository to display only the events that are relevant to a particular user on that user's Home page. You can configure News configuration settings to control how the information that the Home page receives from the News repository is stored and administered. The administrators are the users that are mapped in the admin Java EE role in the News application.
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View and control News content by using scripts that are accessed by using the wsadmin client as detailed in the Administering the News repository section. |
Profiles |
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To view and control Profiles content:
You must use wsadmin commands to delete photos, edit About Me and Background information, and activate or inactivate any profile. For more information, see Profiles administrative commands. Use the Profiles REST ATOM API to edit core user attributes. For more information, see Profiles Administration API. Attributes that you cannot edit are link roles, friends, tags, and the following and follower lists. To edit those attributes, you must use direct SQL. |
Search |
Search in any application returns all content. For example, a search in Communities returns private communities even if you are not a member. |
To have search return all content:
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Wikis |
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To view and control Wikis content:
Note: When a user creates a wiki, they are the owner of that
wiki. An administrator can add new owners to the wiki, but the creator
of the wiki cannot be removed from the membership. Direct SQL manipulation
on the database is required to reassign the creator and remove them
from the membership. |