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Lists the programmatic applications that are new, changed, or deprecated in version 3.

Lotus Connections 3

• Files CMIS API
  
  

Lotus Connections 3: New APIs

Common API

• An element called <snx:userState> has been added to the <author> and <contributor> elements that identifies whether a person is an active or inactive user.
• You can follow items of interest such as a person, tag, or blog.
  
  

Activities

You can add a subset of community members to a community activity. See Adding an activity member programmatically for more details.

Blogs

• Moderating blogs programmatically
• Getting a feed of the featured blogs
• Getting a feed of the featured blog posts
  
  

Bookmarks

There are no new APIs being introduced for this application in this release.

Communities

• A new collection called My Invitations is now available from the service document. See Getting the My Invitations feed and Working with community invitations for more information about what you can do with it.
• Working with subcommunities
• Working with remote applications
  
  

Files

• The terminology used in the Files application has changed since the 2.5 release. Collections are now referred to as folders. The API documentation has also been updated to refer to folders. However, the API has not changed; it still represents a folder using a collection Atom entry document and "collection" is still used in the resource URIs.
• Moderating community files and comments programmatically
• Working with files in the trash
• Working with versions
• Working with file attachments programmatically
• Getting a feed of your pinned files
• Working with pinned files
• Getting a feed of your pinned folders
• Working with pinned folders
• Getting a feed of file shares
• Getting a feed of folders to which you recently added files
  
  

Forums

There is new API associated with the new Forums application. See Forums API.

News repository

• Getting a feed of community updates
• Getting a feed of News Feed updates
• Getting a feed of status updates
  
  

Profiles

• The Profiles Administration API has been added to the product. It enables administrators to update any existing profile or add and delete profiles.
• You can retrieve all status messages or the status messages for multiple people at once.
• You can use the activeUsersOnly parameter to limit a profile search to return only currently active users. See Searching Profiles programmatically for more details.
• Updated the Updating profile entries topic to include information about how to change the values of editable fields.
  
  

Search

You can filter search feeds using the new lang parameter. See Getting Search feeds for more details.

Wikis

There are no new APIs being introduced for this application in this release.

Lotus Connections 3: New SPIs

• Service provider interfaces that were provided as an add-on to Lotus Connections 2.5 have been incorporated into the product in version 3. You can use the SPIs to integrate third-party search engines with Lotus Connections. The seedlist feeds for Files and Forums have changed as follows since the 2.5 release:
Files
You used to send the request to a different URI depending on whether you wanted to crawl for personal (http://<servername>/files/seedlist/document/personal) or community (http://<servername>/files/seedlist/document/community) files. Now, there is a single URI which enables you to crawl for both types of files: http://<servername>/files/seedlist/myserver
Forums
Forums is now a stand-alone application and is no longer dependent on the Communities application. Its URI has changed from http://<servername>/communities/seedlist/forum/myserver to http://<servername>/forums/seedlist/myserver.

• Events are generated by each Lotus Connections application when content is created, updated or deleted. Using our event SPIs, these events can be processed by third-party tools for auditing and compliance purposes. See Event SPI for more details.
  
  

Lotus Connections 2.5

See the What's new topic in the Lotus Connections 2.5 section of the information center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/topic/com.ibm.connections.25.help/r_api_whats_new.html

Lotus Connections 2.0.1

See the What's new topic in the Lotus Connections 2.0.1 section of the information center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/topic/com.ibm.lotus.connections.help/r_api_whats_new.html

Lotus Connections 2

See the What's new topic in the Lotus Connections 2 section of the information center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/topic/com.ibm.lc_2.0_IC/c_api_whats_new.html

Lotus Connections 1.0.2

To view the complete documentation for version 1.0.2, go to the Lotus Connections information center for the 1.0.x release at the following external web site:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v1r0/index.jsp

Parent topic: Developing

Related concepts
Lotus Connections APIs