Add sources to the Communities catalog

Overview

The Communities catalog uses sources to display lists of communities in the views...

• I'm an Owner
• I'm a Member
• I'm Following
• I'm Invited
• Public Communities

If data is missing from these views, you can clear, then rebuild the Communities catalog index.

By default metadata is collected automatically on a schedule, but we can manually clear and collection data for each source. Only place metadata is collected, not the actual community or place content.

Add sources

Source configuration is automatically generated by the installation process. For out-of-the-box Connections, one generally need not set this explicitely. Use to add new sources, such as a Lotus Quickr for WebSphere Portal Places server.

1. Log in to IBM Connections as the catalog administrator.

2. Select...
   Communities | Administration | Add Source

   ...and then set...

   Name	Name of source
   User	Name of the administrator used in authentication.
   Password	Password the administrator uses for authentication.
   Server URL	Address of the server providing the seedlist.
   Type of place metadata to be indexed	For example, Lotus Quickr for WebSphere Portal Places.
   Seedlist URL	Composed automatically by concatenating Server URL with known seedlist postfixes. In most installations, the composed URL is correct, and with no need to change. To change, click Change URL.

3. Select how frequently this source is crawled for new data to collect in the Collect every field, and then click OK.

Parent topic:
Manage the Communities catalog