Hiding email addresses
Configure HCL Connections to prevent email addresses from being displayed in the product to protect the privacy of your users.
Before you begin
Attention: Do not configure HCL Connections to hide email addresses
if you are using any of the HCL Connections
extensions. Extensions such as the HCL Connections Plug-in
for Notes® or HCL Connections Plug-in for Sametime®, require addresses to be exposed
because they rely on email addresses to identify users. For more information,
see the Extending section of the product documentation
for a list of available HCL Connections
extensions.
About this task
- Members fields. When you begin to type a name into a name field, a list of options is displayed. By default, this list is composed of email addresses. If you configure HCL Connections to hide email addresses, the list is composed of display names instead.
- URLs. Email addresses are often sent as parameters in URLs. This setting prevents the email address from being used in URLs. A customer ID is used instead.
- Notifications. HCL Connections sends email notifications in response to various user actions. For example, when you add members to an activity, they receive email notifications rthat inform them about the activity. Other notifications are generated automatically by the server. For example, automatic notifications are sent to activity owners to warn them that an activity will be marked complete because of lack of use. When you indicate that you do not want to expose email addresses, notifications appear to originate from the administrator email address. In addition, the email addresses of the recipients are added to the BCC field of the notification.
- Profiles business card. The email address that usually is displayed in business cards is not displayed nor.
To hide email addresses, complete the following steps:
Procedure
-
Edit the LotusConnections-Config.xml file.
-
Set
<exposeEmail enabled="false">
. - Save the file and check it back in using the following command:LCConfigService.checkInConfig().
- Sync all nodes with the following command: synchAllNodes().
- Restart Connections.