How to configure the schedulers for the Communities module

Problem Description

Problem 1: Some of the schedulers for Communities scheduled tasks need to be changed for optimal performance.

Problem 2: Because of problems in the Communities module, the schedulers need to be checked whether they are running as configured.

Solution with Websphere Commandline Interface

Problem 1:

1. Search the HCL Connections documentation for the steps to solve your problem.
2. Start the wsadmin commandline interface as administrator. ATTENTION: All commands for the commandline interface are case sensitive!
3. Activate the relevant Jython script.
4. Check out the relevant HCL Connections configuration XML file.
5. Open the HCL Connections configuration XML file and edit the parameters. ATTENTION: Make sure you don’t accidentally violate the XML schema, e.g. by forgetting to close a tag or a quotation mark.
6. Check in the configuration file again.

Problem 2:

1. Search the HCL Connections documentation for the steps to solve your problem.
2. Start the wsadmin commandline interface as administrator. ATTENTION: All commands for the commandline interface are case sensitive!
3. Activate the relevant Jython script.
4. Perform the relevant Jython commands.

Solution with Connections Administration Toolkit (CAT)

Navigate to Administration – Communities, subsection Scheduled Tasks. There, you can see all available scheduled tasks for Communities in the individual tabs.

Problem 1: To change the schedule, simply click in the Cron-Expression text-box, and a window will open where you can read the schedule more easily than in its condensed cron expression form. You can also edit the schedule there.

After editing the parameters, a confirmation popup summarizes the changes and allows you to enter a comment. All changes, comments, and who made them, are logged by the CAT application.

Problem 2: To view whether a scheduled task is still operating, and when it will be fired next, simply click ‘Get Details’