Apps Menu / Navigation¶

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¶

The HCL documentation also highlights how to add customEntries to the side navigation.

Ideas¶

 {
  "id": "ideas-menu-nav",
  "name": "Ideas",
  "action": "add",
  "link": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/auth/connections?redirect_to=/huddo/ideas",
  "icon": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/ideas/favicon.ico",
  "order": 1600,
  "submenu": [],
  "location": "main"
},

Wikis¶

{
  "id": "wikis-menu-nav",
  "name": "Wikis",
  "action": "add",
  "link": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/auth/connections?redirect_to=/huddo/wikis",
  "icon": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/wikis/favicon.ico",
  "order": 1700,
  "submenu": [],
  "location": "main"
  },

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.

Download the default react-nav.json file.
Rename this file to react-nav-entries.json

Edit this file to add Ideas and Wikis

Huddo Collab 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. Simply add the following JSON object in the corresponding section of the file:

{
  "id": "ideas-menu-nav",
  "name": "Ideas",
  "action": "add",
  "link": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/auth/connections?redirect_to=/huddo/ideas",
  "icon": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/ideas/favicon.ico",
  "order": 1600,
  "submenu": [],
  "location": "main"
},

{
  "id": "wikis-menu-nav",
  "name": "Wikis",
  "action": "add",
  "link": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/auth/connections?redirect_to=/huddo/wikis",
  "icon": "https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/huddo/wikis/favicon.ico",
  "order": 1700,
  "submenu": [],
  "location": "main"
},

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

Restart the Common application via the ISC to apply the changes