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Administering Connections 6.5 CR1Welcome 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.
InstallingTo install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Post-installation tasksAfter installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Configuring additional HCL Connections applicationsYou must perform additional tasks to enable HCL Connections for the Orient Me home page, the Touchpoint interactive user experience, Community Libraries, Community Surveys, Metrics applications, and more.
Installing Community SurveysIf you want to be able to conduct surveys within Communities to capture data and share it easily with your community in an activity stream, enable Community Surveys.
Surveys in HCL Connections communitiesYou can create polls and surveys in your Connections communities when you integrate Community Surveys with Connections. When you integrate the two products, the survey widgets, Surveys and Featured Survey, are enabled in community pages.
Enabling Community Surveys on the Community Surveys serverYou enable the Community Surveys feature by copying the files provided to the extension directory on the Community Surveys server, and then editing the Connections configuration file.

Enabling Community Surveys on the Community Surveys server

You enable the Community Surveys feature by copying the files provided to the extension directory on the Community Surveys server, and then editing the Connections configuration file.

About this task

Make sure you complete steps 1 through 3 in the following procedure before you do step 4.

Procedure

Unzip the file ibm.nitro.integrations.connections.packaging-buildNumber.zip, and copy all extracted files into the Community Surveys server extension directory. By default, the directory is as follows:

Windows: C:\ibm\Forms\extensions

Linux and AIX: /opt/ibm/Forms/extensions
Edit the Connections_config.properties file in the extension directory, to add the following two entries:

ibm.nitro.integrations.connections.Config.communityRoot = <Community root URL>.

ibm.nitro.integrations.connections.Config.authAlias = <connectionsAdmin>
Replace <Community root URL> with the base URL for HCL Connections Communities, for example, http://connectionsserver/communities.
Replace <connectionsAdmin> with The J2C authentication alias that handles Connections application-to-application communication, for example, connectionsAdmin.