Customizing basic notification settings (CR4 and later)
You can change many aspects of notifications in Connections 6.0 CR4 and later by making changes to a common properties file.
Before you begin
The following procedures are provided as a way for you to easily override several properties that affect the CR4 notifications: company name, sender name and email, placement of the Connections application name, date format, maximum number of events, company logo, profile photo type, background colors in the notification, and footers.
These procedures do NOT apply to notifications from the default (earlier than CR4) templates, for which you can make changes only by using the methods referenced in the preceding note.
- Locate the properties file commonProperties.json in the following
directory:
app_server_root/profiles/dm_profile_root/config/cells/cell_name/LotusConnections-config/notifications_v2/resources/
- Open the commonProperties.json file with a text editor.
Procedure
Customizing common properties
Find the properties in the commonProperties.json file that you want to change, and replace the values with the ones you want. All properties in the style section are optional.
The following example shows a sample commonProperties.json with default values for the style section.
{
"name": "Notification mail customization",
"type": "com.ibm.connections.notification.mail",
"payload": {
"platformName": "IBM Connections",
"photoType":"url",
"orgIcon":"data:image/png;base64,...",
"style": {
"bodyBackgroundColor": "#eeeeee",
"mastLogoBackgroundColor": "transparent",
"mastLogoHeight": "32",
"sidebarBackgroundColor": "#3d6cf0",
"messageBackgroundColor": "#ffffff"
},
"activityDateFormat": "dd MMM",
"activityMax" : "25",
"subjectAppNameAppend" : "tail"
},
"path": "notify"
}