Desktop Plugins: Setting preferences for Connections plugins for Windows

Set preferences for Connections plug-ins for Windows

Set preferences for the Connections plug-ins for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Windows Explorer.
Open a document in any Microsoft Office application or from Microsoft Outlook, click the Connections tab, and then click Preferences. Or from Windows Explorer, right-click IBM Connections, and then click Preferences.

Preference Description
Email settings Select Use Mail application, and specify an email provider, such as IBM Notes. This is the email the plug-in uses for notifications. Select Use mailto: protocol to use the default email.
Show Desktop icon Places an icon for the plug-in on the desktop.
Show Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension This controls whether the Connections context menu displays when we right-click a desktop file.
Enable beta features Check this box to enable beta features for the plug-in. This will give you access to features in a pre-release state. You may need to log in again before we can see new features.
Beta features are generally not documented or fully supported and are intended to give you a preview of what is coming in a future release.

Preference Description
Site URL The URL for the Connections or IBM SmartCloud server we are connecting to.
Display name Name of the server.
User name The user name that you use to log in to IBM Connections or IBM SmartCloud.
Password The password that you use to log in to IBM Connections or IBM SmartCloud.
Authentication type By default, the plug-in authenticates with the Connections server using basic authentication. If we are connecting to an IBM SmartCloud server, select IBM SmartCloud Authentication. If wer administrator implemented an alternate authentication mechanism in the environment in which the Connections server is running, you might be instructed to edit the authentication settings.

Preference Description
Outlook Social Connector Provider Select up to four servers to add to the Outlook Social Connectors (OSC). Adding Connections servers to OSC makes Connections profiles available in Outlook contacts and in the People Pane. Once a server is added to OSC, it cannot be removed by clearing the server name here. If Outlook is open, restart it to see the changes.

Preference Description
Alert me when I save a draft When this option is enabled, a message notifies you when we save a draft.
Enable automatic deletion of drafts When this option is enabled, unpublished drafts are deleting on the schedule we specify.
Ignore local changes made to files with these extensions Specify extensions for types of files you do not want to save as drafts.

Parent topic:
Use the Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Windows

Preference	Description
Email settings	Select Use Mail application, and specify an email provider, such as IBM Notes. This is the email the plug-in uses for notifications. Select Use mailto: protocol to use the default email.
Show Desktop icon	Places an icon for the plug-in on the desktop.
Show Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension	This controls whether the Connections context menu displays when we right-click a desktop file.
Enable beta features	Check this box to enable beta features for the plug-in. This will give you access to features in a pre-release state. You may need to log in again before we can see new features. Beta features are generally not documented or fully supported and are intended to give you a preview of what is coming in a future release.

Preference	Description
Site URL	The URL for the Connections or IBM SmartCloud server we are connecting to.
Display name	Name of the server.
User name	The user name that you use to log in to IBM Connections or IBM SmartCloud.
Password	The password that you use to log in to IBM Connections or IBM SmartCloud.
Authentication type	By default, the plug-in authenticates with the Connections server using basic authentication. If we are connecting to an IBM SmartCloud server, select IBM SmartCloud Authentication. If wer administrator implemented an alternate authentication mechanism in the environment in which the Connections server is running, you might be instructed to edit the authentication settings.

Preference	Description
Alert me when I save a draft	When this option is enabled, a message notifies you when we save a draft.
Enable automatic deletion of drafts	When this option is enabled, unpublished drafts are deleting on the schedule we specify.
Ignore local changes made to files with these extensions	Specify extensions for types of files you do not want to save as drafts.