With this new release, our Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT) does not only offer full support for Connections 5.0 CR3 and its configuration properties, but also introduces many new and exciting features. We have created a new user interface for better handling, released the export and import feature, and for the first time we start writing into Connections databases.

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What’s New in CAT
Release Aug’ 2015
TIMETOACT GROUP, Cologne, Germany
http://connections-apps/cat

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1. New User Interface
2. Convert Internal Communities to External Communities
3. Transfer of File Ownership
4. Export and Import of Content
5. Support for Connections 5.0 CR3
6. Fixes
Overview

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1. New User Interface

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1. New User Interface
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Our goals:
See what you
need with a single
glance
Clear menu
structure
Clean and
modern layout
Easy and intuitive
handling

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CAT menu on top
Logs: Opens a popup with the five latest CAT log entries; has link to view with all log
entries
Logged-in User: Offers the option to log out
Preferences (Gear-Icon): CAT settings like installation properties and license key
Help: Direct click will open the CAT product documentation for the current page; opening
the drop-down menu gives information about CAT
1. New User Interface – Menu
A flatter, more slender
menu with clear
separation between CAT
and Connections
functions

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Connections menu on left-hand side
Content and Access: Items and functions
pertaining to Connections content, like listing all
Communities or adding members to Activities or
copying Wikis
User Management: Functions for managing
Connections user profiles
Administration: Items and functions for editing
XML configuration properties, managing Search
index, and schedulers
1. New User Interface – Menu II

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No need to navigate through CAT
anymore – use the quick search box to
directly jump to your community / ...
Search names of Connections content and users
Use * as wildcard for more matches
Opens corresponding view and filters for the
selected item
1. New User Interface – Quick Search

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Filtering lists of hundreds and thousands of users
has never been this easy.
‘Add Filter’ to set a single filter
‘Advanced’ to construct complicated, multi-layer filters
Always see your filter terms in one glance
1. New User Interface – Filters

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Individual filter terms can be
canceled
1. New User Interface – Filters
Filter terms appear in the URL, so specific
filter settings can be bookmarked in the
browser

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Customizable table columns: choose which columns to
display
Quick table page jump by entering page number directly
Responsive design: viewable on mobile devices
1. New User Interface - Tables

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2. Convert Internal Communities
to External Communities

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2. Convert Internal Communities to
External Communities
You have a great Connections
community. You have external
users you want to
share this
community with.
Now what?

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Converting external to internal is possible in Connections UI starting
with Connections 5.0 CR2
But converting from internal to external?
2. Convert Internal Communities to
External Communities

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Use CAT to turn the internal community into an external
one!
2. Convert Internal Communities to
External Communities

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2. Convert Internal Communities to
External Communities
Warning for all subcommunities that will be made external
View all files that will be made external

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2. Convert Internal Communities to
External Communities
Detailed conversion logs of the individual database write actions
CAT log entry of who made the community external

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2. Convert Internal Communities to
External Communities
Now you can invite as many external users as you like.

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3. Transfer File Ownership

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Use Cases:
User leaves company but owns important files
User changes department and needs a successor for his files
Solution with Connections:
3. Transfer File Ownership

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With CAT
3. Transfer File Ownership

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4. Export and Import of Content

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Move key content from
staging to production
environment
Create backups of key
content
Works for Activities,
Blogs, Forums, Wikis
Next release: export and import
entire communities
4. Export and Import of Content

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4. Import Content – Upload zip-File
Works in any browser
Import content from your
local disk

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4. Import Content – Configure Import
Keep track of who
posted what
Impersonation: post
in the name of the
original posters
Advanced settings
for large wikis
Limit REST calls per
seconds
Copy in background so
that CAT can be used
normally in meantime
Tested with 1GB wikis

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5. New CR3 Properties

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Mobile application
AllowRemoveAccount
AllowImport
ImportWhiteList
Activities application
Allow hiding of Add Comment link in ToDo lists
(feature.hideToDoListAddCommentLink.enabled)
Communities application
Allow leading wildcards for group name typeahead
(useLeadingWildcardForGroupTypeahead)
5. New CR3 Properties

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6. Fixes

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Copying / Merging Activities: Mails dragged into the activity from the Notes
plugin are copied correctly
Copying / Merging Blogs: drafts are not copied anymore
Copying / Merging Forums: @mentions can be copied; Umlaute are posted
correctly; ‘Originally Posted By’ will be copied into forum replies again
Removed the Activity Stream / Microblogging configuration properties in
LotusConnections-config.xml which do not exist anymore in Connections
5.0
Fixed empty CSV-export of Files
Setting File Library and Wiki policies in the details popup is possible again
Fixed wrong LDAP-uid to logged-in user display name mapping
6. Fixes

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Important Links
CAT homepage:
http://connections-apps.com/cat/
Download CAT from IBM Greenhouse:
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/CAT
Contact us via mail:
cat@timetoact.de
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https://timetoact-group.com/webinar-cat/

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Reference Customers
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31. Thank you for your interest
cat@timetoact.de
+49 221 97343 0
http://connections-apps.com/cat