Kieran Reid

I see that this question has come up once or twice to support, it's a quick answer so thought I'd post
it here.

In an out of the box deployment of Connections, you will not be able to embed content such as Youtube
videos in a blog or elsewhere in Connections. If you try, you'll see that the preview looks good but when
you come to making the actual post, the video is not shown.

The reason for this is the active content filter which is enabled on all features. All user generated content
is run through through this and any content deemed to be a potential risk is removed. If you want to allow
the posting of content like this to a Blog, the ACF filter will need to be switched off. Of course, doing this leaves
you slightly more exposed from a security point of view. The InfoCenter deals with the potential risks involved
and how you can mitigate them. If you undertake this change, you are doing so at your own risk!

To disable the ACF filter for the Blogs application for example, here are your commands after opening a wsadmin
console. You'll have to restart the application server running Blogs to see the effect.

execfile("blogsAdmin.py")
BlogsConfigService.updateConfig("ACFEnabled", "false")

Although Blogs is the obvious place for this type of content to be posted, the option to disable the ACF filter also
applies to other features and the list of commands that apply there are listed here.




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