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Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 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 Blogs
Administer site-wide settings for Blogs from either the Blogs user interface or via the wsadmin client.
Moderating blog content
Monitor and control the content of blogs using the moderation tools.
Managing moderated blog entries and comments
Centrally manage blog entries and comments for a moderated blog before the content is published to a blog, or when the published content is updated.

Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 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
  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 HCL Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Uninstalling HCL Connections
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate HCL Connections™ and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest deployment, 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 HCL 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 Blogs from the user interface
      Make site-wide changes on your Blogs server from the Blogs user interface.
    - Administering Blogs using the wsadmin client
      As an alternative to modifying the Blogs site settings from the Blogs user interface via the Administration tab, you can also modify settings using the wsadmin client.
    - Moderating blog content
      Monitor and control the content of blogs using the moderation tools.
      - Moderating Blog comments
        Configure content moderation to enforce it at the site level, or leave it as an option for blog owners.
      - Moderated content states for blogs
        When blog content is moderated, it can be in a variety of states before and after being published.
      - Managing moderated blog entries and comments
        Centrally manage blog entries and comments for a moderated blog before the content is published to a blog, or when the published content is updated.
      - Managing flagged content for a blog
        Review published blog content that has been flagged as inappropriate and take action on flagged entries and comments.
    - Changing the location of the Blogs File Upload directory
      Change default directories for the File Upload directory from the IBM® websphere Application Server (WAS) administrator console.
    - Blogs field limits
      This topic lists character input limits for key Blogs fields.
    - Extending the list of allowable file types for blogs
      Extend the list of possible file types that users could upload to a blog.
    - Understanding and configuring blog hits and visits
      Understand how blog hits and visits are calculated and how you can modify the way each count is done.
    - Understanding blog likes, comments, and visits
      This topic describes how the Most Liked, Most Commented, and Most Visited statistics are calculated and why the counts may differ between those found in the widgets and those found in the main page.
  - 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
    Administer metrics in HCL 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 HCL Connections applications. Search is a required application for all HCL 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.
  - Administering Component Pack for Connections
    Monitor the services for Component Pack for HCL Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
- Customizing
  Customize HCL Connections™ to fit your environment.
- Security
  HCL Connections™ provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the HCL Connections™ Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with HCL 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 HCL 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™.

Managing moderated blog entries and comments

Centrally manage blog entries and comments for a moderated blog before the content is published to a blog, or when the published content is updated.

About this task

If moderation is enabled for Blogs, moderators can review and approve comments and entries from a central location. You can configure who can review and approve content through the Java EE global-moderator role in the WAS admin console. All users assigned the J2EE global-moderator role can manage entries and comments for all blogs on the site. You can also configure who can review and approve community blog content with a setting in the contentreview-config.xml file as follows:

If ownerModerate=true in contentreview-config.xml, all community owners can moderate the blogs in communities that they own.
If ownerModerate=false in contentreview-config.xml, only users assigned the Java EE global-moderator role can manage entries and comments for all blogs on the site.

Procedure

From the Blogs home page, click the Moderation tab.
Click the Entry Approval or the Comment Approval link in the navigation pane to review entries or comments.
The following tabbed views let you review and manage content:
- All displays all entries or comments for the site.
- Require Approval display entries or comments awaiting your action.
- Published displays all entries or comments published to a blog.
- Rejected displays all entries or comments not approved for publishing to a blog.
To filter the list of entries or comments in any of the views, do one of the following and then press Filter.
- Enter a tag and click the search icon to search for contents associated with that tag.
- Enter a start and end date to display content entered in that range.
From the Require Approval tab, select one or more item and choose an action:
- Publish makes the content available in the blog.
- Reject moves the content to the Rejected state. The blog owner or the author of the entry or comment can edit the content and resubmit for approval.
- Delete permanently removes the content from the blog.

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