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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.
Customizing
Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
Using Profiles and Communities business cards
Extend your web application by integrating the Profiles and Communities business cards in to the application.

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.
- Customizing
  Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
  - Customization best practices
    Use the following guidelines to help you to implement and manage customizations in your deployment of IBM® Connections.
  - Injecting customizations into Connections pages
    IBM Connections™ Customizer is a proxy service that lets you modify the IBM Connections user experience. Customizer intercepts and modifies requests from clients and responses from servers, so it can customize anything that flows through it, such as the behavior of APIs or the look-and-feel of the user interface.
  - Customizing the user interface
    The procedure to customize IBM® Connections is the same for each application. You must edit a copy of the relevant source file and save it in the appropriate customization directory.
  - Customizing notifications
    The content of the notifications sent by IBM® Connections is defined in templates that are processed by the FreeMarker engine.
  - Adding new ways to share content
    Create your own gadgets and add them to the Share dialog.
  - Customizing a blog theme
    Customize a blog theme to change the look of a blog. Or create a new theme and make it available to your blog users.
  - Customizing Metrics reports
    Metrics data displays as reports, which you can customize for your organization. When you install IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence to support the Metrics application, a set of standard reports is immediately available. You can customize the standard reports by editing the configuration file that defines each report’s layout. In addition, you can use IBM Cognos Report Studio to create new reports.
  - Customizing Profiles
    Customize the Profiles application to define the core data model for people within your deployment and tailor the presentation of profile content to meet your organization’s requirements.
  - Using Profiles and Communities business cards
    Extend your web application by integrating the Profiles and Communities business cards in to the application.
    - Integrating the Communities business card
      Include the Communities business card in your web application so that users can quickly navigate to a community from the application.
    - Integrating the Profiles business card
      Include the Profiles business card in your web application so that users can access your profile information and contact details.
    - Customizing the Profiles business card
      Customize the Profiles business card to meet the needs of your organization.
  - Customizing the Wikis welcome page
    Customize the welcome page of the Wikis application.
  - Post-customization step
    Edit a configuration property so users see your changes the next time they log in, without having to clear their web browser cache.
- 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™.

Using Profiles and Communities business cards

Extend your web application by integrating the Profiles and Communities business cards in to the application.

The Profiles business card provides a snapshot of your profile information and contact details. You can adapt the card to change the information that it includes. For example, you can add or remove links, and customize the contact and location information that displays on the card. The Communities business card displays the image associated with the community, and includes key links that allow users to quickly navigate to a community from the application in which the card is deployed.

Note: The use of JavaScript™ Object Notation with padding (JSONP) technology in the Profiles and Communities business card will be deprecated in future releases. Although JSONP will continue to be supported, if you are integrating the business card in to your web application and you want to prevent JSONP data from being transmitted by IBM® Connections, you must use an Ajax proxy.

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Application Pack for Web 2.0 includes an Ajax proxy. For more information, see the WebSphere Application Server information center.

IBM® WebSphere® Portal Server also includes an Ajax proxy. For more information, go to: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc_v6101/dev/ajax_proxy_cfg.html

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