HCL Support published a collection of links to MustGather informations for Connections and addons. That’s the perfect starting point to start troubleshooting and collecting logs for your support cases.
Useful KB Doc: MustGather for Connections
·36 words·1 min
Author
Christoph Stoettner
I work at Vegard IT GmbH as a senior consultant, focusing on collaboration software, Kubernetes, security, and automation. I primarily work with HCL Connections, WebSphere Application Server, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, and Linux. My daily work occasionally leads to technical talks and blog articles, which I share here more or less regularly.
Related
Patch Orient Me Container
·997 words·5 mins
I wrote about font loading from external CDN in the post Hiding The Create Community Button 2nd last year and hoped this is finally fixed for all Connections applications. A good summary on the reasons to not allow external font loading is Blocking Web Fonts for Speed and Privacy.
So I checked with a Connections 7 deployment with the latest CFix (CFix.70.2112) deployed, if this is still an issue with Connections.
In former Connections’ versions we found external fonts loaded in Orient Me (/social), Communities Catalog (/communities) and the Admin panel (/cnxadmin/).
Hiding the Create Community button 2nd
·266 words·2 mins
Some time ago I got the tip from HCL Support, that the Create Community button will recognize the role community-creator only when the gatekeeper option CATALOG_CARD_UPDATED is set to false.
This is working, but I had to complain, that this option activates some code, which loads fonts from a CDN instead of the local Connections deployment.
Tweak HCL Connections Newsletter v2
·213 words·1 min
The newsletter in version 2 format has one big disadvantage, we or our users lost the easy links to the topic, author profile or application.