Adding sources to the Communities catalog
Add sources to make HCL Connections communities available to users in the Communities catalog.
Before you begin
About this task
Sources are connections to servers or clusters that contain IBM® Connections communities. The servers publish metadata about
their communities and places, and sources collect that metadata in an index. Community metadata then
displays in lists of communities in the I'm an Owner, I’m a
Member, I’m Following, I’m Invited,
Trash, and My Organization
Communities views. By default, metadata is collected automatically on a schedule, but
you can control collections for each source.
Note: Only places metadata is collected, not the actual
community or place content.
Procedure
To add sources to the Communities catalog, complete the following steps.
- Click any option under Communities and then click the Administration tab.
- Click Add Source.
- Enter the name by which the source is identified in the Name field.
- In the User field, enter the name of the administrator that is used in authentication.
- In the Password field, enter the password that the administrator uses for authentication.
- Enter the address of the server that provides the seedlist in Server URL field.
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View the known seedlist postfixes portion of the seedlist URL in the
Type field, and change it if necessary.
Note: The seedlist URL is the URL composed automatically by concatenating the server URL and the known seedlist postfixes. In most HCL Connections installations, the composed URL is correct and there is no need to change it.
- Select how frequently this source is crawled for new data to collect in the Collect every field, and then click OK.