Wikis

Today I read the article KB0118248 and remembered my blog post from 2018 . I also checked the attached aha idea where a comment states that you can use iframe for Youtube. Despite what KB0118248 incorrectly states, it is absolutely possible to embed videos in HCL Connections blogs and wikis using the HTML video tag as demonstrated in this post.
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Wikis in IBM Connections 5.5 have a little bug, because the link
(/library
instead of /wikis/form/api/library
) for images are wrong
and so they are not displayed.
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I have read about a new function in IBM Connections Wiki, which I missed until now. A new macro to create a table of contents within a wiki page.
The activation of this macro is documented here: Wikis configuration properties
wikimacros.enabled
Specifies whether macros are enabled in Wikis. You can use macros to automate common tasks, such as generating a table of contents in a wiki page. The default value of this parameter is false. To enable macros, set the value to true. When enabled, macros are available from the Macros menu in the editor toolbar.
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The Default Page of Wikis shows some content for our users to offer them better work experience, but in some companies it would be good to change this text or use only one language. Content of this welcome page is set in the default language of the user who creates the wiki.
I found the properties File for this text area in
{WAS_Root}/profiles/AppSrv01/installedApps/{cellname}/Wikis.ear
When
you unzip the file share.services.jar
, you get the path
com/ibm/lconn/share/services/handlers/wiki/nls/
and there the
properties-files for wikis (WikiWelcomePageMessages.properties
).
To change the values for english, you create a file named
com.ibm.lconn.share.services.handlers.wiki.nls.WikiWelcomePageMessages.properties
in {Connections Shared Directory}/customization/strings/
Here you define:
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