Community Folders in IBM Connections 4.5

In addition to sharing personal folders to Communities, you can now create folders in a Community and use them to organize files within that Community.

To use Community Folders feature,Connection 4.5 needs to install CR4.



Configuring Community Folders

To enable this feature, follow these steps:

1. Add this setting to the files-config.xml configuration file, inside the <config [ . . . ]></config> tags:

<folder>
    <community>
        <communityFolder enabled="true"/>
    </community>
</folder>

2. Synchronize and Restart the Connections server.

Creating Community Folders

Create a community and add file widget.

In file widget ,you will see "Add files" and "Add folders" link in file widget




Click " Add folders".Choose Create New Folder.

Enter Name as "Communityfoldertest"






Note: The Community folder can reference files from the following sources:

• Community-owned files
• Personal files that are shared with the Community