Search Integration with Connections Customizer

Note: These instructions are for HCL Connections On-Premise

If you want to learn more about using Connections Customizer, have a read of the developer documentation on GitHub.

Prerequisites

1. Connections Customizer is setup as per documentation
2. Download boards-search-customizer.zip

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Configure Reverse Proxy

As part of the Connections Customizer set up, you configured a reverse proxy.

Our Customizer app has integration points in both the Search Sidebar and full Search page. The rule in your reverse proxy conf that directs requests to mw-proxy (customizer) should include all paths where the Search sidebar appears and the Search page. You might already be directing all traffic through Customizer, which will also work.

location ~ ^/(files/customizer|files/app|communities/service/html|forums/html|search/web|homepage/web|social/home|mycontacts|wikis/home|blogs|news|activities/service/html|profiles/html|viewer) {
      proxy_pass http://MW_PROXY_SERVICE:30301;
  }

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Copy Files to Customizer Server

The script file that is injected by Customizer needs to be copied into a directory on the mw-proxy server.

1. Extract files from boards-search-customizer.zip

2. If you want to restrict messages between Kudos Boards and your Connections environment, replace targetOrigin with your connections host (e.g. https://connections.example.com)

3. Copy plugin.js into /pv-connections/customizations/boards-search-customizer

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Register Boards Search in Customizer

1. Go to the Connections Customizer App Registry, e.g https://connections.example.com/appreg

Note: To access App Registry, you need to have the admin Security Role for the Common application. This is configured in the WebSphere console

1. Add a new app.

2. Open Code Editor.

3. Import or copy the entire contents of appreg-manifest.json from boards-search-customizer.zip into the code editor and click Save.

This saves you from completing all of the form fields for creating the app. You can edit the app now to customize names or directories if necessary.

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Testing

1. Use the Search Sidebar to search for content in Boards from different paths in Connections (e.g. homepage, profiles, activities, forums)

1. Use advanced search (/search/web/jsp/advancedSearch.jsp) to see Boards results integrated in the full search results page.

> Note: you need to have content in Boards to see any results.