CAT – Connections Administration Toolkit

for HCL Connections

Simplify the administration of HCL Connections (formerly IBM Connections) with this easy to install and easy to use web interface tool. Complex multilevel administration commands can be done with just a single click, even by administrators without WebSphere background. Easily accelerate and automate administrative tasks and enhance the maintenance tasks for HCL Connections. Benefit from extremely lowered effort for training and maintenance.

Simplify and Improve HCL Connections Administration and Content Management

The Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT) eliminates the complexity of HCL Connections administration and content management. It is an easy to install and easy to use web interface tool even from any mobile device. Mastering HCL Connections administration and content becomes a breeze with CAT, even for non-technical users.

CAT Features

Copy, merge, import, and export content
Drill-down of LDAP groups assigned to communities
Convert communities to subcommunities and vice versa
Create and assign file quotas
List a user’s related content on one page
Check your profiles for users with login issues
Analyze and fix user synchronization problems
Manage external users

CAT Benefits

Easy to use, easy to install
Unveils the hidden treasures of HCL Connections administration and configuration possibilities
Brings 1st and 2nd level capabilities to your organization and reduces response times
Lowers maintenance costs
See all important information at a glance
Increased security through Run-As users and logging of all actions
Administration from mobile devices without remote desktop logins

Reduced complexity and simplify HCL Connections administration and maintenance

CAT offers HCL Connections administrators an intuitive and efficient way to solve all the complex tasks required to successfully administrate a Connections system. Simplicity: Complex multilevel commands are shortened down to simple GUI windows All in one: No need for the administrator to work directly with XML files or the wsadmin tool, everything can be done from within CAT No technology skills required: Both XML editing and the Jython script commands are done by CAT, the administrator doesn’t necessarily need to know either Safety: Several validity checks for performed changes to minimize the risk of demolishing your HCL Connections

New Release CAT_6.5.0_20201218-1453:

New Features

Convert external users to internal
Copy / Merge: Automatically add „Originally Posted By” for content of inactive users
Wikis Export in readable HTML format
Support for Connections 6.5
Export of Files and their versions
Add widget to all communities

Fixes

GDPR anonymize: replace other Profiles columns like surnames, too
Backup Schedulers: No immediate start when CAT is started so that it doesn’t prevent the application startup
Export Members: fixed bug where export failed with more than 50 members
Copy / Merge / Import Forums: Fixed bug where answered topic became unanswered due to the chosen reply having a URL to replace
Copy / Import Community Events: Impersonation for the events
New Installation: fixed that SSL format gets displayed as TLSv1.2, but internally TLSv1 was used
Copy / Import Communities: Duplicate subfolders
Copy / Import Blogs: Pictures sometimes did not get copied with 401 messages
Import Forums: Fixed where zip-file could not be uploaded
Updated Connections documentation links
Searchbox: allow for whitespace
Administration – General – Notification (Events): fixed Bug where the view was not displayed correctly
Broken Profiles view not visible anymore
Missing images while importing into existing blog

More information and download

CAT Overview

List and Manage External Communities

Allow Internal Users to interact with External Users (assign Extended Profile)

List Files shared externally

List and Manage External Users

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Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT) von TIMETOACT GROUP

2018/08/28

The new CAT release is fully compatible with Connections 6.0 CR2. It consists of several improvements to the copy / merge process and the backup process, introduces a customizable CAT title that can be configured for every environment, and helps fix homepage related user issues.

2017/11/01

The new CAT-Release for Connections 6.0 and 5.5 is available now! Besides various bugfixes you are now able to schedule Communities backups, set ‘List when restricted’ property, display subcommunities in detail and export communities with all members and their roles!

2017/05/19

Release for Connections 5.5, CAT can now access IBM Smartcloud. It contains various bugfixes, you can now view content from Connections Cloud and even copy communities from on premise to the cloud!

2017/05/15

Release for Connections 6.0. It contains a host of bugfixes and some new features (for content and administration).

2016/08/02

Releases for Connections 5.5 and Connections 5.0. New feature in both releases: member management, expanded merge functions for communities, wikis, forums and blogs

2016/01/20

Releases for Connections 5.5 (first CAT release for the new Connections version) and Connections 5.0. New feature in both releases: import / export / copy / merge communities

2015/10/01

Release for Connections 5.0: Communities widget management; various bugfixes

Release for Connections 4.5: Import/Export of wikis

2015/08/07

Release for Connections 5.0. Content export / import feature; first write actions to Connections databases for converting internal communities to external ones and changing file ownership. New UI, support for Connections 5.0 CR3.

2015/04/09

Release for Connections 5.0. Customizable list columns; impersonation for copying / merging content; editing File shares. Support for Connections 5.0 CR2

2015/03/12

Release for Connections 4.5. Various bugfixes; Impersonation for copying / merging Wikis; editing File shares.

2014/12/16

Release for Connections 4.5. Various bugfixes; Improved handling of Search - Run Background Indexing Task.

2014/12/01

Release for Connections 5.0. New XML configuration files; Formbased authentication for REST calls. Support for Connections 5.0 CR1

2014/08/07

First release for Connections 5.0. Support for new Connections 5.0 features (external users, community soft-delete) and configuration properties

Content Access Rights

Communities

Blogs

Forums

How to copy or merge forums into a single forum

Wikis

General

How to find and manage orphaned content

Activities

Bookmarks

How to view and administrate Connections Bookmarks

Files

Users

Administration and Configuration

General

Communities

Activities

Blogs

How to set global Blogs configuration parameters

Bookmarks

How to change global Bookmarks (Dogear) configuration property values

Files

Forums

How to change global Forums configuration settings

Metrics

How to change global Metrics configuration properties

News

Mobile

How to change configuration properties for the Mobile application

Profiles

Search

Wikis

How to view and configure wiki library quotas

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CAT – Connections Administration Toolkit

for HCL Connections

Simplify and Improve HCL Connections Administration and Content Management

CAT Features

CAT Benefits

Reduced complexity and simplify HCL Connections administration and maintenance

New Release CAT_6.5.0_20201218-1453:

More information and download

CAT Overview

List and Manage External Communities﻿

Allow Internal Users to interact with External Users (assign Extended Profile)﻿

List Files shared externally

List and Manage External Users

Content Access Rights

Communities

Blogs

Forums

Wikis

General

Activities

Bookmarks

Files

Users

Administration and Configuration

General

Communities

Activities

Blogs

Bookmarks

Files

Forums

Metrics

News

Mobile

Profiles

Search

Wikis

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How to configure email notifications for Connections events

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How to browse and manage all Connections Blogs

How to copy or merge forums into a single forum

How to back up a Community

How to configure and administrate the Activities tasks

How to merge/copy several Wikis into a single Wiki/Community

How to configure languages and enable language preferences

How to configure default preferences and senders

How to change global configuration properties

How to configure the Communities Media Gallery

How to copy or merge Blogs into a single Blog / Community

How to configure widgets for Communities and Profiles

How to change the UID of a Connections user

How to view and configure wiki library quotas

How to configure dictionaries for the Search application

Changing configuration properties for Mobile application

How to configure the schedulers for the Communities module

How to change the default maximum size of file libraries

How to set and change the Communities file policies

How to manage Communities trash

List and Manage External Communities

Allow Internal Users to interact with External Users (assign Extended Profile)