IBM Connections – Communities Trash

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Author: Christoph Stoettner
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Communities HCL Connections API

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Today i thought about creating and deleting some Communities with the REST API. Works really good and i need to post my findings sometimes.

First cool thing is that you can create restricted Communities with external feature through REST.

After deleting these Communities i checked the Community overview through my browser and found following view:

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So you mustn’t use wsadmin to restore Communities from trash, you can use this view. Never heared of it and the documentation still mentions wsadmin as the only way to restore them.

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Christoph Stoettner

I work at Vegard IT GmbH as a senior consultant with a focus on collaboration software, Kubernetes, security and automation. I mainly deal with HCL Connections, WebSphere Application Server, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Linux.

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