Edit configuration settings to enable email notifications
in the IBM® Connections applications
if you did not do so during the installation.
About this task
You might choose not to enable email notifications if you
have configured IBM Connections
to hide email addresses, for example. Even when you do not enable
email notifications, if you installed the Home page application, the
product still supports a subset of notifications that can be displayed
in the Home page application. The subset includes the notifications
of type "Directed," which are listed in Configuring notifications.When
you set the enabled property to false globally or for a specific source,
this disables all notification events for the Home page. Notification
emails will not be sent and notifications will not display in the My
Notifications view in the Home page. For this reason, when
you are disabling email only, it is important to ensure that you only
set the email channel to false for a specific notification type.
Procedure
- Access the notification configuration file.
- Open the notification-config.xml file
in a text editor.
- Locate the <config> element with the ID attribute equal
to notification-config.
- Search for the <source name="<applicationName>" string
to find the section of XML markup that defines the notification settings
for the application for which you want to enable email notifications.
- Change the value of the enabled attribute associated with
the email channel element to true. For
example:
<source
name="Activities"
enabled="true"
defaultFollowFrequency="DAILY">
<type name="notify" notificationType="DIRECTED">
<type name="notify" notificationType="DIRECTED">
<channel name="email" enabled="true">
<property name="sender">blogs-admin@example.com</property>
<property name="ftl">notify.ftl</property>
</channel>
<channel name="event" enabled="true">
<property name="eventName">blogs.notification.notify</property>
<property name="transformerClass">com.ibm.lotus.connections.
core.notify.channels.event.BlogsNotificationEventTransformer
</property>
</channel>
</type>
...
</source>
Note: When you disable notifications during
the installation process, all the email channels are set to false.
Source events are left at true because notification events are still
valid to be sent and displayed in the Home page activity stream. Setting
the entire source to false disables all events, which means that notification
emails will not be sent and will not display in the My Notifications view
in the Home page.
- Save, close, and then check in the notification-config.xml file
as described in Accessing the notification configuration file.
What to do next
See Defining valid administrator email addresses for
some additional steps that you must take to configure automatic notifications
in Activities.