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
How to browse and manage all Connections Blogs |
How to copy or merge Blogs into a single Blog or into a Community |
Forums
How to copy or merge forums into a single forum |
Wikis
How to merge or copy several Wikis into a single Wiki or a Community |
How to view the effective member list of a Wiki with groups |
General
How to find and manage orphaned content |
Activities
How to change membership and ownership of Activities |
How to view the effective member list of an Activity with groups |
Bookmarks
How to view and administrate Connections Bookmarks |
Files
Users
Administration and Configuration
General
Communities
Activities
How to modify Activities to meet Company Standards |
How to configure and administrate the Activities scheduled tasks |
How to change Activities file upload and type limits |
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
How to configure URL previews within Connections |
How to change global configuration settings for News |
Mobile
How to change configuration properties for the Mobile application |
Profiles
How to change global configuration properties for the Profiles module |
How to add policies for Profile types |
Search
How to recreate the Search index |
How to configure dictionaries for the Search application |
Wikis
How to view and configure wiki library quotas |
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
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