How to change global configuration settings for News

Problem Description

Modifying the News module settings.

Solution with Websphere Commandline Interface

Search the IBM Connections documentation for the steps to solve your problem.

1. Start the wsadmin commandline interface as administrator. ATTENTION: All commands for the commandline interface are case sensitive!
2. Activate the relevant Jython script.
3. Check out the relevant IBM Connections configuration XML file.
4. Open the IBM Connections configuration XML file and edit the parameters. ATTENTION: Make sure you don’t accidentally violate the XML schema, e.g. by forgetting to close a tag or a quotation mark.
5. Check in the configuration file again.

Solution with Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT)

Navigate to Administration – News, subsection Configure. There, you can see all available properties sorted by categories. There is a brief description of what the property does:

After editing the parameters, a confirmation popup summarizes the changes and allows you to enter a comment. All changes, comments, and who made them, are logged by the CAT application.