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Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
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.
Administering Wikis
Configure and administer Wikis by using the wsadmin client to run administrative commands or by editing the configuration file directly.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Wikis
Manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so that your public wiki content is available from internet search engines and achieves a higher ranking in searches.
Submitting a sitemap for SEO
Submit a sitemap to a search engine provider.

Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
- What's new in HCL Connections 6
  Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
- Product overview
  Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the IBM Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate IBM® Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
- 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.
  - Administering common areas
    Administer the common areas of IBM® Connections.
  - Administering Activities
    Configure Activities to best meet the needs of your environment.
  - Administering Blogs
    Administer site-wide settings for Blogs from either the Blogs user interface or via the wsadmin client.
  - Administering Bookmarks
    You configure and administer Bookmarks using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to Bookmarks configuration settings require a restart of the Bookmarks server before they take effect. Changes made using administrative commands take effect immediately.
  - Administering Communities
    Configure and administer Communities using scripts accessed using the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client.
  - Administering Files
    You administer Files using the wsadmin client to specify properties in a configuration file, or run administrative commands.
  - Administering Forums
    Administer Forums by specifying properties in a configuration file or running administrative commands.
  - Administering the Home page
    You can administer site-wide settings for the Home page from the Home page administration user interface or using the wsadmin client.
  - Administering Libraries
    A Library provides the services of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system to Communities. To enable the use of Libraries, you must make some configuration changes to Connections and to each ECM system that you plan to use.
  - Administering Metrics for Cognos
    Administer metrics in IBM® Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
  - Administering the News repository
    You administer the News repository using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to News configuration settings require node synchronization and a restart of the Home page server before they take effect.
  - Administering Profiles
    Profiles provides two types of administrative capabilities: configuration settings and administrative commands. You change configuration settings and execute administrative commands by running scripts from the wsadmin command line.
  - Administering Search
    The Search service provides a point for performing full text and tag searches across all the deployed IBM® Connections applications. Search is a required application for all IBM Connections applications, and it must be running to prevent unexpected behaviors in the other applications.
  - Administering Wikis
    Configure and administer Wikis by using the wsadmin client to run administrative commands or by editing the configuration file directly.
    - Changing Wikis configuration property values
      Configuration properties control how and when various Wikis operations take place. You can edit the properties to change the ways that Wikis operates.
    - Running Wikis administrative commands
      Use administrative commands to perform tasks that manipulate Wikis content.
    - Backing up Wikis data
      Back up the data in your wikis.
    - Restricting attachment file types in Wikis
      Restrict the types of files that users can upload as attachments in wiki pages.
    - Setting maximum sizes on media, pages, and attachments
      You can set maximum sizes for media, pages, and attachments in the wikis-config.xml properties file.
    - Setting maximum sizes on libraries
      Use WikisLibraryService commands to set maximum sizes on libraries by assigning them a policy. A library is the pages, attachments, and other data that make up a wiki. A policy sets a maximum size for a library.
    - Working with Wikis policies
      Use the WikisPolicyService commands to add, edit, count, and return information about policies. You apply policies to libraries to set a maximum size on those libraries. A library is a set of files that are owned by a person or community.
    - Viewing Wikis library information
      Use the WikisLibraryService commands to find information about Wikis libraries. A library comprises the pages, attachments, and other data that make up a wiki.
    - Filtering library lists
      Use the WikisUtilService commands to filter lists of library maps that are returned by the WikisLibraryService.browseWiki command. You can filter a list of library maps by string value, date value, or number value.
    - Printing library information
      Use the WikisPrintService.saveToFile command to print information that is returned by other commands.
    - Disabling wiki page versioning
      By default, users can see all versions of a wiki page but you can disable versioning by editing the wikis-config.xml configuration file.
    - Deleting wikis from the system
      Use the WikisLibraryService delete commands to delete wikis.
    - Deleting draft wiki pages
      Delete unsaved changes to a user's wiki pages.
    - Finding the location of a stored attachment
      Use the FilesUtilService.getFileById command to locate a file attachment in a directory.
    - Displaying file attachments inline
      Configure Wikis to display file attachments inline instead of as attachments. This is useful when you download and display active content, such as Adobe® Flash (.swf) files, in your own HTML pages. Enable inline display by changing a configuration property in the wikis-config.xml file. Then change the attachment URLs to use inline parameter.
    - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Wikis
      Manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so that your public wiki content is available from internet search engines and achieves a higher ranking in searches.
      - Enabling or disabling SEO
        Enable or disable search engine optimization (SEO) of your public wiki content.
      - Submitting a sitemap for SEO
        Submit a sitemap to a search engine provider.
      - Securing SEO
        Control access to the sitemap that is used for search engine optimization.
  - Administering Component Pack for Connections
    Monitor the services for Component Pack for IBM Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
- Customizing
  Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
- Security
  IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the IBM Connections Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with IBM® Connections and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your IBM® products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM products, including HCL Connections™.

Submitting a sitemap for SEO

Submit a sitemap to a search engine provider.

About this task

The SitemapGenerator task that is configured in the wikis-config.xml file generates a sitemap that you can use for search engine optimization. To use the sitemap, you must submit the URL of the sitemap to the provider's website, using a format such as the following sample URL:

http://example.com:8080/wikis/sitemap/myserver

This address returns the sitemapindex.xml file that contains all the sitemap URLs that will be accessed by the search engine provider's crawler.

The default location of the sitemap is

AIX® or Linux™: /opt/IBM/Connections/data/wikis/upload/sitemap
Windows™: C:\IBM\Connections\data\wikis\upload\sitemap

To submit a sitemap, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Upload the sitemap to a search engine provider by following the instructions for that provider. For example, to submit a sitemap to Google, go to the Submitting a sitemap to Google webpage.
Allow the search engine provider to have anonymous access to the sitemap. Providing this access means that you do not have to manually submit the sitemap again. To allow anonymous access, follow the instructions on the provider's website.
Repeat these steps for each search engine provider to which you want to submit the sitemap.

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