Update to IBM Connections 4.0 CR3 (iFix LO74465)

By dennis ruddigkeit | March 23, 2013 - 6:55 | Connections

An update for the common application for CR3 for Connections 4.0 has been released – it fixes an issue when accessing this version with ~~Lotus~~ Notes 9 Social Edition.

Obviously, IBM informed all customers who have already downloaded CR3 about the update.

Our Fix Central records indicate that the ID associated with this email address downloaded IBM Connections 4.0 Cumulative Refresh 3 (CR3). IBM support has found an issue that may affect Notes 9 Social Edition clients accessing IBM Connections 4.0 environments with CR3 applied. iFix LO74465 was added to the 4.0 CR3 package to address this issue and is now available from Fix Central. If you have Notes 9 Social Edition clients that will access your IBM Connections 4.0 CR3 environment, please use this link to download the iFix:
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Lotus/Lotus+Connections&release=4.0.0.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=4.0.0.0-IC-Multi-COMMON-CR3-LO73535-LO74465&includeRequisites=0&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=http&source=fc
If you have already applied 4.0 CR3, please use the update installer to apply LO74465.
If you have not already applied 4.0 CR3, please include LO74465 along with the rest of the fixes you already downloaded, so that it is applied as part of CR3.

Thanks, good service!

IBM Connections: Thumbnails in Media Gallery

By dennis ruddigkeit | September 16, 2011 - 9:32 | Connections

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When uploading pictures to a media gallery in Lotus IBM Connections 3.0.1, an event is triggered to generate a thumbnail for the uploaded image. This process may not run, if it is triggered to run on behalf of a user which does not exist in IBM Connections – i.e. the user does not have a profile in the profileDB.

In most installations this user is the initial Connections administrator user and does not have a profile, so you may need to use the following workaround (which is also described in the IBM Connections Forum) to make thumbnails working instead of seeing “Preview currently not available” :

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