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Schlagwort: connections

  • Blogs Homepage not working after upgrade to IBM Connections 4.5

    After upgrading an IBM Connections 4.0 environment to 4.5 (site-by-site with datamigration using database transfer tool), the Blogs homepage was not working.
    Apps > Blogs > Public Blogs  displayed only „Page not found“.

    The SystemOut.log contained the following exception:

    [7/17/13 10:07:09:150 CEST] 00000067 PageServlet   E org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.servlets.PageServlet processRender CLFRS0090E: Error during rendering for page 5c985baf-6732-474c-b5ca-d0e4fec0091e
    java.util.MissingResourceException: Can’t find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key entryManagement.lastupdate
    at java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(ResourceBundle.java:416)
    at java.util.ResourceBundle.getString(ResourceBundle.java:430)
    at org.apache.roller.ui.rendering.model.MessageModel.get(MessageModel.java:84)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor293.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611)
    […]

    In addition, the tab layout at Apps > Blogs > My Updates was out of alignment. Not so critical as the non-working Blogs Homepage, but end users can be fussy sometimes 😉

    At first, I remembered an issue I have been working in the past where the blog homepage handle did not equal the value of site.frontpage.weblog.handle.
    See this technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21626806

    Unfortunately, checking the database did not confirm my guess.

    After some time, I came across the link   Apps > Blogs > Administration > Blogs Homepage Theme
    The „Administration“ tab is only visible to administrators. So, you might need to add yourself as administrator at first:
    http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Configuring_an_administrator_for_Blogs_ic45

    At this page, you are able to make modifications to the Blogs Homepage theme templates.

    AdministrationBlogsHomepageTheme

     

    And, there I found the ressource reference „entryManagement.lastupdate“ in Weblog.

    Weblog defines the main page of your blog, in this case for Blogs homepage.

    I compared the content of Weblog theme template with the one included in the installed Blogs application:
    <WAS_HOME>/profiles/<AppSrv_Name>/installedApps/<Cell_Name>/Blogs.ear/blogs.war/themes/homepage/Weblog.vm

    Besides a lot of other changes, the ressource key has been changed to „entryManagement.lastupdate_1“ and „entryManagement.lastupdate_2“ in IBM Connections 4.5.
    That’s the reason why „entryManagement.lastupdate“ could not be found. That’s a ressource key definition used in IBM Connections 4.0.

    I copied the whole content from the theme template file out of the installed Blogs application into the specific template at „Administration > Blogs Homepage Theme“.

    Finally, I compared all themes and found again a lot of changes. So, I had to update them by copying the content from the theme file as well.
    I had to do these steps for:

    • allblogs
    • weblog
    • _myfavorites
    • _header
    • mynotificationreceived
    • mynotificationsent
    • myupdates

    So, it looks to me that during upgrade, the blogs homepage theme have not been updated in the database.

  • IBM Connections Mail and international characters

    Issue: In Connections Mail, international characters like Umlaute are either not displayed or only a square is printed instead of the character.

    Solution: The underlying operating system where WebSphere Application Server is running, is not using UTF-8 for character encoding. You need to define UTF-8 as character encoding in the Java runtime environment. For Connections Mail, it is sufficient to modify the application server configuration where the Common application is running (e.g. InfraCluster_server1).

    1. In the WebSphere Application Server Administration Console, click Servers > Application servers > Java and Process Management > Process Definition > Java Virtual Machine > Generic JVM Arguments
    2. Set the following two parameters as follows:
      -Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8
      -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

    See https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg21639274