Choosing the Active Discussion for Discussions and Announcements Using WLST

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14.9 Testing Discussions Server Connections

Try accessing the discussions server with the following URL: http:host:portowc_discussions You should see a page listing all public information.

14.10 Granting Administrator Permissions on Oracle WebCenter Discussions

The WLST command addDiscussionsServerAdmin grants system administrator permissions on the discussions server to a user or a group. This command is useful when you connect the discussions server to a new identity store that does not contain any of the current administrators. For command syntax and examples, see the section, addDiscussionsServerAdmin in Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic Scripting Tool Command Reference.

14.11 Granting Administrator Role for Oracle WebCenter Discussions

The default domain administrator created for Oracle WebCenter is also the administrator for Oracle WebCenter Discussions. You can make a nondefault user the administrator for Oracle WebCenter Discussions. While creating a domain, if you specify any other user as the domain administrator, that user is granted all the domain administrative rights. However, after creating the domain, you must manually grant the administrator role to that nondefault user for WebCenter Spaces and Oracle WebCenter Discussions server. For information on how to grant administrator privileges to a nondefault user for WebCenter Spaces, see Section 28.4.1, Granting the WebCenter Spaces Administrator Role. For Oracle WebCenter Discussions, the default user is the super administrator. This section describes how to grant administrator privileges to a nondefault user.

14.11.1 Granting the Administrator Role with WLST

The WLST command addDiscussionsServerAdmin lets you grant system administrator permissions on the Discussions server to a user or a group. This is useful when you connect the discussions server to a new identity store. For command syntax and examples, see the section, addDiscussionsServerAdmin in Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic Scripting Tool Command Reference.

14.11.2 Granting the Administrator Role

To grant the administrator role for Oracle WebCenter Discussions to a nondefault user: 1. Log on to the Jive Forum Admin Console as an administrator by using the following URL format: http:host:portowc_discussionsadmin.

2. Click the Settings link in the list of links across the top of the page.

3. Click the AdminsModerators link, if not selected, in the navigation panel on the

left.

4. On the Admins Moderators page, click the Grant New Permissions tab.

5. Select the System Admin checkbox.