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Administering Connections 6.5 CR1
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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.
Installing
To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Optional: Installing and configuring Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
The Tiny editors are alternative rich-text editors which can be installed for HCL Connections™. They provide additional features and extensive customization options not available with the default editor.
Installing Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
Install the Tiny editors: TinyMCE and Textbox.io, to get a powerful editing experience inside HCL Connections™ with a streamlined user-interface and unparalleled customization.
Installing the Tiny Editors integration
This section covers the installation of the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections integration package, providing TinyMCE and Textbox.io for HCL Connections™.
Configuring the Tiny Editors integration
The editors can be customized prior to installation by modifying the config/config.js file in the extracted Tiny Editors for HCL Connections package.
Enable or Disable built-in macros
This section covers enabling or disabling the Tiny Editors built-in macros: useful text styling macros.

Administering Connections 6.5 CR1
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site. 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.
  - The installation process
    Review the steps that are required to install HCL Connections.
  - Pre-installation tasks
    Complete the following tasks before installing HCL Connections. If you are migrating from a prior release of HCL Connections, do not complete the tasks for creating databases or populating the Profiles database. The migration process handles those tasks automatically.
  - Installing HCL Connections
    Select the HCL Connections applications that you plan to use and install them in a clustered deployment.
  - Post-installation tasks
    After installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
  - Optional: Installing and configuring Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
    The Tiny editors are alternative rich-text editors which can be installed for HCL Connections™. They provide additional features and extensive customization options not available with the default editor.
    - Installing Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
      Install the Tiny editors: TinyMCE and Textbox.io, to get a powerful editing experience inside HCL Connections™ with a streamlined user-interface and unparalleled customization.
      - Optional: Installing Tiny Editors Selector
        The Tiny Editors Selector is a WebSphere application which allows the editor to be set for each user or role. This task can be skipped if you want to use the same editor for all users.
      - Optional: Installing Tiny Editors Services
        The Tiny Editors Services provide the following functionality for the Tiny Editors: spellchecking, link checking, and automatic embedding linked media. This task can be skipped if the spellchecking, link checking, and embed media features are not required.
      - Installing the Tiny Editors integration
        This section covers the installation of the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections integration package, providing TinyMCE and Textbox.io for HCL Connections™.
        Configuring the Tiny Editors integration
        The editors can be customized prior to installation by modifying the config/config.js file in the extracted Tiny Editors for HCL Connections package.
        Selecting an editor
        This option is used to select the editor for HCL Connections™. If the Tiny Editors Selector service is installed, you can choose to assign the editor based on user or security group.
        Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector roles
        Assigning an editor to users or roles is performed by configuring the Tiny Editors Selector service. This step can also be done after installation of Tiny Editors for HCL Connections is complete.
        Configuring the Tiny Editors Selector editor priority
        Assigning the editor priority is performed by configuring the Tiny Editors Selector service. This step can also be done after the installation of Tiny Editors for HCL Connections is complete.
        Modify the Editor CSS
        Customizing the look of HCL Connections™ using custom CSS.
        Change Spelling Service URL
        If the Tiny Editor Services are not running on the same server as HCL Connections™, the spelling service URL is required.
        Enable or Disable Spellchecking
        This section describes the process for enabling and disabling the use of the Tiny Editors Services spelling service.
        Change Link Service URL
        If the Tiny Editor Services are not running on the same server as HCL Connections™, the link service URL is required.
        Enable or Disable Link Validation
        This section describes the process for enabling and disabling the Tiny Editors use of the Tiny Editors Services hyperlinking service for link validation.
        Enable or Disable Link Embedding
        This section describes the process for enabling and disabling automatic media embedding in the Tiny Editors.
        Customize the Toolbar
        The section covers customizing the Tiny Editors toolbar (not including contextual items).
        Set Fontpicker fonts list
        The section covers customizing the list of fonts provided for the font-picker in the Tiny Editors.
        Set Colorpicker colors
        Customize the colors shown in the Tiny Editors colorpicker, and to keep or remove the custom color picker.
        Enable or Disable built-in macros
        This section covers enabling or disabling the Tiny Editors built-in macros: useful text styling macros.
        Add custom macros
        Creating simple macros to provide useful work shortcuts.
        Where additional customization is required, custom plugins can be loaded into TinyMCE.
        Where additional customization is required, custom plugins can be loaded into TinyMCE.
        Configure additional TinyMCE settings
        TinyMCE has many options not configured by the integration and they can be set by providing them in the additional settings object.
        Installing Tiny Editors integration
        Installing the Tiny Editors integration, providing TinyMCE or Textbox.io in HCL Connections™.
    - Upgrading Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
      Instructions for upgrading Tiny Editors for HCL Connections to the latest version.
    - Modifying Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
      Modify the Tiny editors TinyMCE and Textbox.io to customize your editing experience.
    - Uninstalling Tiny Editors for HCL Connections
      Completely removes Tiny Editors for HCL Connections to restore HCL Connections™ to the base state or to allow a clean upgrade to a newer version.
    - Common tasks, concepts and reference information
      Common tasks, concepts and reference information.
  - Optional post-installation tasks
    Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
- 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.
- 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 HCL products, including HCL Connections™.

Enable or Disable built-in macros

This section covers enabling or disabling the Tiny Editors built-in macros: useful text styling macros.

Procedure

Using a plain text editor, open config/config.js in the extracted Tiny Editors for HCL Connections package.
Note: Use a plain text editor to avoid inserting invalid formatting or symbols into config.js. Do not use a rich text editor such as Microsoft Word for editing configuration files.

Locate the property macros, and set the following sub-properties to true to enable and false to disable.

Macro	Effect
`headings`	This macro creates headings when a line is prefixed with one or more "#". `# heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 #### heading 4 ##### heading 5 ###### heading 6`
`lists`	This macro creates a list when a line is prefixed with a asterisk, or other combinations to create a list. `* Unordered list 1. Ordered list using numbers 1) Ordered list using numbers a. Ordered list using the alphabet a) Ordered list using the alphabet i. Ordered list using roman numerals i) Ordered list using roman numerals`
`semantics`	This macro sets the font styling to bold or italic using markdown syntax. `this text will be italic _this text will be italic_ this text will be bold __this text will be bold__`
`hr`	This macro inserts a horizontal rule (hr tag) when a line starts with three consecutive dashes. `---`
`link`	This macro converts URL-like text strings into a hyperlink.
`entities`	This macro provides a shorthand for a few HTML entities. "`(c)`" will become the copyright symbol (©) "`-`" or "`--`" will become a long dash (—)

Continue configuring the Tiny Editors integration or continue with the installation.

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