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HCL Connections 8.0

There are a few ways to achieve this in HCL Connections 8.0 with the new theme.

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Customizer

Please see the full customizer extensions documentation for our package of default customisations. The HCL documentation also highlights how to add customEntries to the side navigation.

Customise nav json file

Tip

This is the recommended approach for environments that do not have Customizer installed.

The side navigation is customisable as per the official documentation.

1. Download the default react-nav.json file.

2. Rename this file to react-nav-entries.json

3. Edit this file to add Boards

   Huddo Boards can be added in any place in the navigation. Typically this would either be at the top level in the navbarmenus.main_menus array between Communities and People. Alternatively under the More popout section. Simply add the following JSON object in the corresponding section of the file:

   {
     "id": "boards",
     "name": "Boards",
     "link": "/boards/auth/connections",
     "icon": "/boards/img/logo-white.svg",
     "order": 2500,
     "submenu": []
   },
   

   For example:

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4. (Optional) Remove Activities menu item

   Once Huddo Boards (Activities Plus) is installed you may choose to remove the Activities menu item. This can be done by removing the following Activities section from the more.submenu array in the json file.

   

5. Place this customised file on your Shared Drive at this location:

   <SHARED_DRIVE>/customization/common/ui/cnx8-react/react-nav-entries.json
   

   For example:

   /nfs/data/shared/customization/common/ui/cnx8-react/react-nav-entries.json
   

6. Restart the Common application via the ISC to apply the changes

   

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HCL Connections 7.0 and earlier

The following steps are for Connections 7 and earlier (6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0 etc) and use the apps.jsp file to add the Huddo Boards app links to the Apps Menu.

1. If you have not customised the apps.jsp file for your connections environment, please make a copy of the file.

   • You can access the file from:

       <WAS_home>/profiles/<profile_name>/installedApps/<cell_name>/Homepage.ear/homepage.war/nav/templates/menu
     

   • Paste the copy into the common\nav\templates subdirectory in the customization directory:

       <installdir>\data\shared\customization\common\nav\templates\menu\apps.jsp
     

2. To add the Huddo Boards app links add the following lines towards the bottom of the apps.jsp file before the </table> element

   --%><tr><%--
     --%><th scope="row" class="lotusNowrap"><%--
       --%><img width="16" src="/boards/img/logo-small.png" /><%--
       --%><a href="/boards/auth/connections"><%--
         --%><strong><fmt:message key="connections.component.name.kudos.boards"/></strong><%--
       --%></a><%--
     --%></th><%--
     --%><td class="lotusNowrap lotusLastCell"><%--
       --%><a href="/boards/auth/connections?redirect_to=/todos/assigned"><%--
         --%><fmt:message key="label.menu.kudos.boards.todos"/><%--
       --%></a><%--
     --%></td><%--
     --%><td class="lotusNowrap lotusLastCell"><%--
       --%><a href="/boards/auth/connections?redirect_to=/templates/public"><%--
         --%><fmt:message key="label.menu.kudos.boards.templates"/><%--
       --%></a><%--
     --%></td><%--
   --%></tr><%--
   

3. Save and close the file

4. Add the Huddo Boards Strings for the Apps Menu

   • Download the strings files and extract the files to the Connections strings customisation directory:

       <CONNECTIONS_CUSTOMIZATION_PATH>/strings
     

   • Note: Please append the lines to the files if they already exist. Extra languages can also be added

5. The changes will take effect when the cluster(s) are restarted