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 post an embedded experience update to a IBM Connections community?
I know we can microblog (ublog) to a community by sending JSON to this endpoint:
https://CONNECTIONSHOST/connections/opensocial/rest/**ublog**/urn:lsid:lconn.ibm.com:communities.community:cbcdf38a-8526-4610-a83a-9ed6744de6be/@all
We can also post…

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Declaring class differently for different Dojo versions without duplicating code?
I have an iWidget designed for IBM Connections, and my javascript code depends on Dojo (which is included by default in Connections).
It currently works in Connections 4.0 and 4.5, but is broken in Connections 5.0 (released last week), as Dojo has…

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IBM SBT: Updating a subcommunity breaks subcommunity relation?
I have implemented creation of subcommunities using IBM SBT 1.0.2.20140527-1807 against IC 4.5 (thanks for heavy API changes from 1.0.1 :-/ ) and want to update a freshly created subcommunity with a nice "content" containing some HTML with links to…

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Adding groups as members to Connections activities with SBT?
In IBM Connections, it's possible to add a group (defined in an LDAP directory or similar) as an activity member.
Is it possible to do this with the Social Business Toolkit Java SDK? If so, how?
I can see in the Javadocs that there's an…

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How to post to just the "My Notifications" or "Action Required" view in Connections?
In IBM Connections 4.0 and 4.5, I'm trying to make a custom Java app imitate much of the activity-stream behaviour of the Activities app.
The Java code uses the Social Business Toolkit to post to activity streams, and authenticates as a user that…

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IBM Connections 4.5 Profiles Administration API - Creating Profiles Codes
I am currently working on a piece of software which should - among other things - be able to create/update profiles codes in IBM Connections' Profiles feature.
In my opinion I did everything as documented in the IBM Social Business Development Wiki…

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IBM Connections keeps doing the OAuth dance for gadgets
I've got an embedded experience gadget configured for the IBM Connections activity stream. It seems that the OAuth dance never succeeds, only returning me to the beginning of the OAuth dance (prompt for authorisation).
I see errors like…

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IBM Connections Customization: Add custom jsp containing navigation, header, footer
We're currently adding a custom jsp file, which can be browsed by clicking a link in the (customized) navigation bar.
Said new page should look like a "native" page in connections and therefore of course contain headers, navigation, footers like any…

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How to create / update a connections blog post using the IBM SBT SDK java API
At the moment, I am trying to create and update blog posts using the java sbt sdk api.
I could read blogs and blog posts and was able to retrieve a single blog post, using the .getBlogPost(bkogHandle, postId) method of the SDK.
But if I try to…

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Notes 9 rcp / IBM SBT SDK: How to get the endpoint correctly
I am currently developing an Notes 9 rcp plugin (using Eclipse, the Expeditor Toolkit and the SBT SDK java framework) for connecting to IBM Connections.
I first wrote a standard Java application to test the code (here: getting some blogs and…

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Error posting to IBM Connections 4.5 activity stream
Using a browser REST client to POST to the activity stream at e.g.
https://connectionsww.demos.ibm.com/connections/opensocial/basic/rest/activitystreams/@me/@all
...with the settings prescribed in IBM Connections OpenSocial API > POSTing new…

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IBM Connections 4.0 CR4: Mail and Calendar are not working
I upgraded my Connections 4.0 to CR4. The mail and calendar widgets were working well previously. After upgrading to CR4, I found this error in the log file:
[9/17/13 12:31:01:458 CST] 0000006f Renderer I org.apache.shindig.gadgets.render.Renderer…

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What do the different dates mean in XML returned by IBM Connections 4.0?
The XML returned from direct REST calls to Connections 4.0 returns dates like so, from a…

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The Node Agent is stopped
I'm trying to start my Node on a command prompt like this:
C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\bin>startnode
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the AppSrv01 profile
ADMU3100I: Reading configuration for server: nodeagent
ADMU3200I: Server…

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open social embeded experience
I've developed an iWidget that creates a status update with an open social embeded experience gadget but it's not working.
This is the open social part data that I send to the server:
"openSocial": {
"embed": {
"gadget":…

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