Optional and recommended configuration for Connections Cloud

Depending on your deployment, follow these steps to optimize the IBM® Connections portlets.

The following are some optional configuration steps you can take to enhance the deployment of IBM Connections portlets for IBM WebSphere® Portal.

Community Pages for Connections Cloud
Integrate Connections Communities into your Portal site to enhance your portal's social collaboration capabilities.
Configuring search integration for Connections Cloud
IBM Connections search integration in IBM WebSphere Portal allows users to perform search queries and view query results for IBM Connections content within the context of their portal environment.
Displaying a refresh button on portlets
Edit style sheets to display a refresh button on portlets.
Configuring links to open Connections in same browser window
You can configure the portlets so that when a user clicks a Connections link it opens IBM Connections in the same browser window rather than the default, which is to open in a new window.
Enabling logging for the Connections portlets
In order to diagnose and resolve errors that occur with the IBM Connections Portlets, you must enable logging.
Pinning portlet content to a tag
Specify a tag to pin for an IBM Connections portlet to show content that is associated with that tag.
Disabling redirect to Connections for content resolution
Configure portlets to display an error page when a page cannot be found to render Connections content.
Configuring unique names
Customize the default unique names for pages and the IBM Connections portlet application ID for your environment to customize where users are redirected to render IBM Connections content in WebSphere Portal.

Parent topic: IBM Connections Portlets for WebSphere Portal for a Connections Cloud deployment