Fine-tune HCL Connections to your needs - Jan Valdman, Whitesoft

Let'sConnect Connects Virtual May 2021

Fine-tune HCL Connections to your needs

Once you finish installation of HCL Connections, there are dozens of features you can enable or disable in so called post-installation steps. Unfortunately many of the useful features are not enabled by default and therefore missed by many admins to the detriment of users. In this session we will walk through most of the features and advice how to make Connections users engaged and happy.

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   May 11, 2021
   Fine tune Connections to your needs
   Jan Valdman, Whitesoft
   @jan_valdman
   

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   Introduction
   

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   Agenda
   • What are user-faced configuration options
   in Connections
   • Where is the configuration stored
   • Non-technical session
   • Intermediate
   

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   About me
   • Manager in Whitesoft
   • Connections addict
   • PM / architect / admin
   • „WebSphere“ guy – troubleshooter
   • Let‘s Connect staff 2013+
   • IBM Champion 2014-2019
   • HCL Ambassador 2019+
   

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   Introduction (a bit technical)
   

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   Why fine-tune Connections?
   • Cool features with every version or CR
   • We have a checklist..
   • Many configurations are lost during
   uogrades
   • Every customer has a different versions or
   settings
   

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   Where is configuration stored?
   • WAS artefacts
   • Connections XML files
   • Theme JSP+CSS files
   • Webserver (+plugin) config file
   • Connections DB
   

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   wsadmin
   

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   Edit XML files
   

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    Gatekeeper
    

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    General settings
    • Enable disable application
    • such as metrics
    • Change application URL
    • Anonymous access to applications
    • ACL in general
    

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    Homepage
    

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    Top bar
    • Logo
    • Extra menu items
    • Logout
    

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    Language Selector
    • Allow switching of languages
    • (does not work for Docs)
    

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    Typeahead Search
    • Typeahead only in Communities
    • Install SOLR or Elastic Search
    

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    E-mail notification
    • Enable custom templates
    • Profile photos
    

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    Files
    

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    Enable Docs
    • Enable online editors for DOC, XLS and
    PPT
    • If you have license…
    

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    Roundtrip editing
    • Edit files via desktop Conenctors
    • Not enabled by default
    

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    Allow preview of old Office files
    • Also needs to be enabled
    

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    Enable filesync
    • Sync files accross dekstops
    • Only for personal files
    

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    Upgrade file upload limits
    • Default value is nowadays low
    • Up to 2 GB
    

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    Change file quotas
    • For personal libraries
    • For community libraries
    

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    Enable richtext editors
    • Instead of plaintext editors
    • For certain little parts of Connections
    

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    Profiles
    

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    Allow External Users
    • Not enabled by default
    

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    Customize attributes
    • Add custom
    • Manage visibility
    

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    Communities
    

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    Enable surveys
    • Must be installed separatedly
    

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    Mail Community
    • Enable to send email to all members
    

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    Blogs
    

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    Enable moderation
    • Pre-moderation
    • Post-moderation
    

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    Increase file limits
    • Each blog has its own storage
    

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    Forums
    

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    Enable non-members to comment
    • Quite interesting…
    

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    Enable reply-by-mail
    • Can be useful …sometimes
    

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    Sumammary
    

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    Conclusion
    • Useful features
    • Many technical settings
    • Study product documentation
    • For your version!
    • Check AHA
    

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