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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Is it possible to lock a file programmatically? (IBM Connections 5.0)
I am working with the IBM Connection APIs and I didn't find anything about the question of locking a file programmatically in the documentation. There is no way to do it?
I have seen that when a file is locked the metadata is changed:
When it is…

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Programmatically change widget title in IBM Connections
I'am trying to programmatically change a widget title in Connections. I use the following REST end-point:
/communities/service/atom/community/widgets?communityUuid=xyz&widgetInstanceId=xyz
Using the following PUT:

Marc van Meer
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How to manage/manipulate from a Java Application (IBM Connections) the uploaded Files
Do you know a way to manipulate the files stored in IBM Connections from a Java application deployed in Websphere Portal 8.5.
I want to be able to read those files without having to download them.
I read about the Rest API (Files API), but this…

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IBM Connections Profiles Widget Edit Mode
I have multiple widgets that appear in profiles that I'd like users to be able to configure in their own profile. For this i'd like to use the iWidget edit mode. Is this supported in profiles/myProfileView? I haven't yet been able to get the Edit…

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Retrieve BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES in java
I have some java code that retrieves blogs through the REST API's. I am not using the social business toolkit, but we have our own framework for that.
The application works perfectly on an on-premise connections environment and has worked on…

Niels Boumans
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social business cloud community get request incorrect responses
I want to show a feed of all communities in the social business cloud environment in my application and since I don't want to use any basic authentication in my program I'm using the oAuth protocol.
Sadly using the oAuth accesstoken in the…

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Pre-event handler - IBM Connections
I would like to trap the file upload event in IBM Connections, and take some actions. If a particular criteria gets satisfied, the file should be stored within the system, or else should be rejected with a message.
For this, I was exploring the IBM…

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IBM Connections Activities
I need to Export IBM Connections Activity to csv file by VBA. Do you have any experience with this? It can be done manually by clicking on Edit Activity -> Export Activity -> Export
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Yes, I am using IBM Connections, interacting on web page…

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How to access profile details using IBM Connections API
In our IBM Connections system I can access Profile Details in the user interface. The browser sends a GET request that looks like
/profiles/html/profileDetails.do?key=22d38016-399e-49ec-b3f6-6707d7a49799§ion=contactInformation
Is there an API…

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Error getting Connection Cloud data using Xpages and IBM SBT
I'm trying to connect to Connections Cloud to get data and display it in xpages using IBM SBT, but I'm having some troubles.
I have installed the IBM SBT on Domino Server and deployed it to Domino Designer after reading the installation guide.
I…
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IBM Connections - Environment Sync up
We have 1 Dev, 1 QA and 1 Prod environments with IBM Connections 3.0.1. Our Lower environments i.e. Dev and QA has gone out of sync, wrt to Production. This has resulted in fixes working on lower environments not working on Production.
We would like…

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how to input a binary image file while uploading profile image file to IBM Connections using REST API
I am using REST client to upload a profile photo to IBM connections but i am struck at the part where you have to send binary image file along with the PUT request. So far I've done this:-
request.put("https://servername.com"/profiles/photo.do?
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Adding Community Members to a community activity using the REST API gives 403
We want to add community members (as author) to a community activity.
We see that both on prem and in Connections Cloud, that we get a 403 error.
I have reproduced this using the SBT playground…

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CORS support for IBM Connections API
We are writing a stand alone JavaScript application that has to create Wiki pages in an IBM Connections community via the Connections API. However, the browser blocks the requests to the Connections API because Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)…

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IBM Social Business Toolkit - no support for IBM Connections 5.5?
I'm asking myself whether IBM Connections 5.5 is not supported by IBM SBT.
The version I use is "1.1.11.20151208-1200".
My test procedure is the following:
public static void testCreateCommunity() throws ClientServicesException {
String g =…

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