A technical blog about IBM Connections and other stuff
Users were complaining that the Rich Text widgets on both the ICEC homepage and inside communities stayed blank. On trying to edit those widgets, they would get an error: The page could not be created due to an error
Continue readingI received a question today who was responsible for the deletion of their community. I wondered where I could find this information. This is where.
Continue readingWe had a lot of errors in the SystemOut.log of our News application showing that somewhere there was a duplicate user where it shouldn’t be. This blog discusses the steps taken to solve the issue
Continue readingThe PROF_GUID or External ID as it’s called in the Connections documentation should be a unique and unchanging constant for each user in your Connections environment. Sometimes things happen though which cause this constant to change. This seriously messes up your Connections databases. This post shows the commands to fix that.
Continue readingIBM HTTP Server works perfectly as a reverse proxy if you know how to configure it. This article shows you a possible configuration
Continue readingA social software platform is meant to share information freely within the organisation. Sharing information however doesn’t come natural to everyone. This post describes how you can restrict creating restricted communities to promote wanted behavior
Continue readingEvery now and then you might want to know what communities a user in your company is a member/owner of. There’s a wsadmin command that you can use, but it has its caveats. This article explains what SQL query you could use
Continue readingAfter upgrading to IBM Connections 6.0 CR3 Tthe SystemOut.log was flooded with the following message:
com.ibm.lconn.pushnotification.bayeux.auth.PNSSecurityPolicy unable to get or set advice from application.. We PMR’d it and received an answer
Did you get any complaints from users that after an upgrade to Connections 6.0 they can’t use certain style attributes anymore in their posts? This post explains what to do
Continue readingA short blog with some commands that I often use myself whenever one of my Linux VMs is running out
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