IBM Connections is social software for business that lets you access everyone in your professional network, including your colleagues, customers, and partners. IBM Connections includes the on-premises and cloud versions.
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How can I index sub-community discussions and events?
I have written a custom crawler to index all the data from the connections seedlists
https:///forums/seedlist/myserver
When we started utilizing subcommunities, I double checked to make sure subcommunities behave practically the same as communities.…

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Trusting an application (not a user) to post to any user's activity stream
I'm trying to use the Social Business Toolkit in Java code on a Connections server to post to users' Connections activity streams.
By default, Connections doesn't allow any user to post to another user's stream, and this restriction applies to my…

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IBM iWidget Persistent storage of attributes - 404 response when saving in Connections 4.0
I am trying to save a persistent variable for iWidget instances in IBM Connections 4.0
Documentation (link & link) leads me to the following javascript (run with the iWidget in Edit…

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Post status update to IBM Connections using extlib
I am trying to post an update i.e. a status message to IBM Connections using the extlib.
I have used the extlib with connectionsLTPA endpoint which works really well for getting the communities list. However I wish to add functionality to update the…

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development on SharePoint v.s. development on Lotus Connections
I am selecting between SharePoint and Lotus Connections, and I want gurus give me some advice. The functions I want to have is, portal/content management/workflow/various ways of communication (IM/audio/video/multi-party conference), better to have…

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IBM Connections - Wikis and Files extraction from database
I need to extract the wiki html content for a specific community and I have access only to the database.
Starting from the table wikis.library table and connecting it with the wikis.media i'm able to retrieve the data,summary but not the html…

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Touchpoint completed state got automatically deleted in HCL Connections 6.5.1
After enabling HCL Touchpoint on HCL Connections 6.5.1. According to the default configuration, we have setTimeDuration set in /mnt/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/CnxNode01/installedApps/CnxCell/Touchpoint.ear/touchpoint.war/js/startup.js. So…

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How can I know if a user is active or inactive in Lotus Connections?
How can I know if a user is active or inactive in Lotus Connections?
Thanks in advance,
Sunny Carrandi

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Using IBM Connections 5.5 - Unable to display Widgets in Community Detail Page and My Page
We are using IBM Connections 5.5. SSO has been done with IBM TAM environment.
Until some time back the application was working fine. However, now after creating a community, system is unable to load Widget details. Only the heading is shown with an…

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Create wiki page in HCL Connections programatically using API
Using Tampermonkey, I want to create a wiki page in an existing wiki in HCL Connections 6.6. According to the documentation, I build this function:
function createWikiPage(cnxBase) {
let wikiLabel = 'API Test Wiki'
let url =…

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Is there a simple way to tell whether another user has access to a file with the HCL Connections Files API?
I need to detect whether another user can open a file from HCL Connections Files.
Is there a single request that can be made to retrieve a particular user's access to a File?
The acls=true parameter listed here retrieves access for the current…

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Automate WebSphere plugins configuration: Not resolved ${WAS_PLUGIN_DRIVER} variable in httpd.conf
I'm working on an automated deployment of HCL Connections 6.5 using Ansible on CentOS 7. It already includes IBM IM, WAS (Dmgr + Node), DB2 and Connections itself. The HTTP Server (IHS) is installed, but now I need to configure it. I need to…

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Plugins in IBM/HCL Connections 5 CR6 with TinyMCE editor
I installed the TinyMCE editor on a vanilla Connections 5 CR6 installation and now want to add plugins. HCL told us that we have the pro version of TinyMCE licenced together with Connections. One example of the pro-plugins is the checklist, which I…

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IBM Connections: userid vs key - Why has connection multiple identifier for a single user?
When I look at the source of a profile page like https:///profiles/html/profileView.do?userid=98A10FD8-FCC3-5DD7-C125-6A9B0055D8C8 I see two kind of ids in the page source:
profilesData.displayedUser = {
key:…

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Custom menu item in IBM Connections mobile app
In the mobile app on IOS we would like to have an custom menu item that links to a specific wikipage.
In mobile-config.xml we have added
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