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Connections 7 creates the Community Highlights page automatically and sets it as the start page for new communities.

That’s configured in the highway service, which is available for administrative users on https://your_connections_url/connections/config/highway.main.gatekeeper.tiles

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A long time ago, I wrote about the new implementation of allowlists in HCL Connections and that the documentation on customization and adding new rules was an absolute miracle for me.

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The newsletter in version 2 format has one big disadvantage, we or our users lost the easy links to the topic, author profile or application.

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Connections 7 has a new Administration Console to access Communities Template administration and Mobile Administration. The Administration Console can be reached on https://cnx-hostname/cnxadmin/. The / at the end is important, because the ingress rule just forwards /cnxadmin/(.*). On Firefox you get this view: /cnxadmin/ panel With Chrome (Chromium, Edge) the left menu is missing. There is a display: inline-flex for some elements in index.css of the Administration Console. So how can we inject a repaired css file into the container? ConfigMap One quick and dirty way is to use a configMap with the adjusted stylesheet. So I did the following:
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The last days I analyzed an issue, that file uploads to HCL Connections via IBM HTTPServer stopped working on a fresh installed 6.5CR1.

Today I configured a Connections 7 and tried with it. I think that the official documentation is old in some important parts for the upload configuration.

First of all my IBM HTTPServer 8.5.5.18 is not 32-bit like the documentation tells us:

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Since IBM Connections 6.0CR4 we can use a new newsletter format which needs still (now with HCL Connections 7) be activated separately in LotusConnections-config/notification-config.xml.

Today some users asked how they can add other users to their private communities (visible in Community catalog) without manually adding them. As we investigated the question I had a look at the old notification format.

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