Disable the Gallery widget and Files grid view to prevent
users selecting the thumbnail view of files.
Before you begin
The Gallery and the Files grid view are two separate features,
but the configuration procedure described here affects both of them.Disabling
the Gallery widget and Files grid view means that users can no longer
select the thumbnail view of files. All thumbnail views are disabled,
including those of personal files, community files, and gallery files.
About this task
By default, the Gallery widget in the Communities application
and the grid view in the Files application are enabled. When the widget
is enabled, your files can be displayed either in a grid of thumbnails
or in a list that includes metadata about the files.
To disable the Gallery widget and the Files grid view, complete
the following steps:
Procedure
- Start the wsadmin client from the
following directory of the system where you installed the deployment
manager:
app_server_root\profiles\dm_profile_root\bin
Note: You
must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that
you try to run will not execute properly. For more information, see
the Starting the wsadmin client topic.
- Use the wsadmin client to access and check out the IBM® Connections configuration files.
- Enter the following command to load the IBM Connections
configuration file: execfile("connectionsConfig.py")
If you are prompted to
specify a service to connect to, type 1 to
select the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node.
If the command writes or reads information to or from a file by using
a local file path, you must select the node where the file is stored.
This information is not used by the wsadmin client when you are making
configuration changes.
- Enter the following command
to check out IBM Connections
configuration files:
LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory","cell_name")
- Navigate to the working directory that you specified in
the previous step and open the LotusConnections-config.xml file
in a text editor.
- Change the value of the filesMediaView property
to disabled.
- Save and check in the LotusConnections-config.xml file.
- Stop and restart your WebSphere Application
Server clusters.