Administer Connections

Administer

1. Common areas
2. Profiles
3. Home page
4. Activities
5. Blogs
6. Bookmarks
7. Communities
8. Files
9. Forums
10. Libraries
11. Metrics
12. News repository
13. Search
14. Wikis

New or updated in v5.0

IBM Connections (common):

• The New (Next Generation) theme, an optional customization in 4.5 CR 1, is now the default theme in 5.0.
• Disable @mentions
• External users are supported in v5.0.

Activities:

• There are no new administration features for the Activities application in this release.

Communities:

• In v5.0 when a user deletes a community, it is not deleted permanently, rather it is moved to a trash area.
• Use the reparenting commands to modify a community to become a subcommunity of another community. We can also modify a subcommunity to become a top-level community.

Files:

• Enable Sync for files in the Files application, for users to work offline with files in the Sync folder, keeping them synchronized when others are collaborating on them.

• External users from outside the company or organization can collaborate on files shared with them.

• Comments in Files supports the use @mentions, a method of notifying colleagues of a post.

• The Thumbnail view is a gallery of images that represent files. The thumbnail shows the file's status (private, community, or shared externally), sync status, and whether version conflicts might exist. Hovering over a thumbnail image opens its reverse side where file details appear and actions to download and preview are available.

• File Preview becomes available when we click anywhere on the back of the thumbnail to get an advance viewing of the file. The file preview should give you enough information about the file's content to decide whether to download it.

Forums:

• There are no new administration features for the Forums application in this release.

News:

• URL preview allows users to decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs. We can now edit og-config.xml in the LotusConnections-Config directory to configure both the URL preview oEmbed and thumbnail end-points.

Profiles:

• Exclude nicknames when adding or updating user profiles by specifying property name.expansion property in tdi-profiles-config.xml.

• We can use the new mapToNameTable property in the profiles-types.xml file to specify an additional givenname or surname value for use with Profiles directory search.

• We can integrate the Profiles business card with the web application by mapping an LDAP distinguished name, using the DN parameter; in addition to the previously available user ID and email mapping options.

• The hashEmail extended attribute can be added to the map_dbrepos_from_source.properties file or profileExtension table in the tdi-profiles-config.xml file to support Profiles users in conjunction with the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector.

• If we use the new External Collaboration feature, new MBean commands allow you to set and retrieve user roles: visitor, employee, and employee.extended.

Search:

• Add a new component to an existing index

• Add a service to the search index

• Review the serverStatus web page

• Globalization support with different dictionaries for different languages.

• Update resume tokens for components in an index. When index is used as foreground index, crawling of the components resumes from the time and date specified in the updated resume tokens.

• In IBM Connections 5.0, we can improve search quality by Boosting search results by tag, title, or recency

Wikis:

• There are no new administration features for the Wikis application in this release.