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Administering Connections 7.0
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.
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 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.
Configuring widgets in Profiles
To configure existing widgets or to make custom widgets available for use in Profiles, you modify settings in the widgets-config.xml file.

Administering Connections 7.0
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 Connections
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Installing or upgrading Component Pack for Connections
  HCL Connections 7.0 now supports the latest Component Pack based in Harbor, an open-source container and Helm registry hosted by HCL for the Component Pack build. Deployments that are new or carrying Component Pack 7 will use this approach for a simplified installation/upgrade process, while releases prior to 7.0 will first need to upgrade to Component Pack 7 using a zip file and a local Docker registry.
- 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.
- Optional post-installation tasks
  Complete the post-installation tasks that are relevant to your deployment.
- Uninstalling
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
- Upgrading and updating
  Upgrade HCL Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or cumulative fixes. Refer to the What's New in HCL Connections to review the features in the latest release and gather download links or links to the latest fix list and update strategy information.
- 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 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 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.
    - Running Profiles administrative commands
      Scripts are used to administer the Profiles application. These scripts use the AdminConfig object available in IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client to interact with the Profiles server.
    - Changing Profiles configuration property values
      Configuration settings control how and when various Profiles operations take place. You can edit the settings to change the ways that profiles behave.
    - Tivoli® Directory Integrator Solution commands
      The following IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator Solution (tdisol) commands are available for managing profile data and performing user data synchronization tasks. These commands are also known as Assembly Lines.
    - Adding supplemental content to Profiles
      You can use IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator assembly-line commands to add photo files and pronunciation files for your users to the Profiles database.
    - Developing custom Tivoli Security Integrator assembly lines for Profiles
      You can use Tivoli Security Integrator connectors to develop custom assembly-line scripts when you need to provide a specific type of function.
    - Managing profile content
      You can enable the active content filter to prevent users from embedding malicious content in text input fields in Profiles. You can also use administrative commands to update or remove inappropriate information in fields to which you do not have owner access.
    - Configuring profile features
      Configure some Profiles featuresby modifying the profiles-policy.xml file. You can enable, disable, and set access control settings for the following Profiles features, according to profile type.
    - Configuring widgets in Profiles
      To configure existing widgets or to make custom widgets available for use in Profiles, you modify settings in the widgets-config.xml file.
      - Checking out the widgets-config.xml file for Profiles
        The widgets-config.xml files contains configuration settings for each of the widgets supported by Profiles. To update settings in the file, you must check the file out and, after making changes, you must check the file back during the same wsadmin session as the checkout for the changes to take effect.
      - Managing widgets in Profiles
        Configure settings in the widget definition file, widgets-config.xml, when you want to modify the widgets that display in the Profiles application.
      - Configuring the Status Updates widget
        Configure the Status Updates widget to display multiple feeds for a user profile. The widget can be extended to display additional feeds from HCL Connections applications and external services as required.
      - Adding custom widgets to Profiles
        Extend the functionality of the Profiles application by adding custom widgets.
      - Profiles widget attributes
        The following tables list the widget elements that you can configure when enabling, disabling, editing, or moving widgets in the Profiles application. These elements are configured in the widgets-config.xml file.
    - Configuring Profiles events
      Use configuration settings to control how you want the events generated by Profiles to be handled in your deployment for auditing purpose.
    - Managing Profiles scheduled tasks
      Use the ProfilesScheduledTaskService administrative commands to manage the tasks scheduled for Profiles.
    - Administering cache
      You can modify settings in the profiles-config.xml file to configure the full report-to and object caches for Profiles. Use Profiles administrative commands when you want to enable, disable, or reload the full report-to chain cache.
    - Managing the Profiles search operation
      Use Profiles configuration settings to control how the search operation displays search results.
    - Monitoring statistics and metrics for Profiles
      Use the Profiles statistics capabilities to monitor operations and product usage.
    - Configuring the vCard export application for Profiles
      Configure settings in the profiles-config.xml file to specify the character set encoding options used to export vCards.
    - Making photos cachable in secure environments
      If your Profiles deployment is configured to prevent profile data from being accessible to readers, you can opt to make just user photos cachable.
    - Enabling the use of pronunciation files in an HTTPS environment
      Ensure that Profiles users can save and play pronunciation files in an HTTPS environment by defining a rule in the IBM® HTTP server’s configuration file.
    - Managing the Profiles event log
      Use Profiles administrative commands to manage the Profiles event log.
    - Configuring advanced settings in Profiles
      Configure advanced settings in Profiles by adding information to the <properties> element in the profile-config.xml file.
    - Exposing information about following
      You can add a setting to the profiles-config.xml file to specify whether information relating to the following feature is made public.
  - 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 HCL products, including HCL Connections™.

Configuring widgets in Profiles

To configure existing widgets or to make custom widgets available for use in Profiles, you modify settings in the widgets-config.xml file.