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HCL Connections v8 has reintroduced and optimized the search functionality previously available in release 7.0, allowing users to efficiently navigate various content types such as blogs, forums, bookmarks, and wikis. With this enhancement, users can refine their search scope to target the specific content type they are currently engaged with, making it easier to pinpoint relevant information without switching contexts.

The optimized search functionality offers the following key enhancements:

  • Contextual Search

    Users can now limit their search results to the specific content type they are currently viewing, providing a more focused and relevant search experience.

  • Expanded Search Options

    The search functionality has been extended to cover a wider range of content types, including standalone applications and content within communities.

  • Advanced Filtering

    Users can refine their search results using various criteria, such as keywords, dates, authors, and tags.

  • Improved Search Results

    Search results are now presented in a more user-friendly format, making it easier to identify and access relevant information.

The new search functionality extends to standalone applications such as Community, Blogs, Wiki, and Forum. As well as within community-specific contexts, enabling users to search comprehensively across Blogs, Forums, and Wikis. These improvements provide a seamless and intuitive content discovery experience to boost productivity and enhance collaboration.

Supported and unsupported search scenarios

To provide users with extended search features, the following scenarios are supported:

  • Search content within applications including blogs, forums, bookmarks, and wikis. For files, searching for a file with a given name is supported, but content search is not.
  • Search content within standalone applications including blog, forum, and wiki.
  • Search content within a community across all instances of an application including forums. Content can be searched within all forums inside a specific community.
  • Search content within a community for standalone applications including blog, forum, and wiki.

While the search enhancements to HCL Connections v8 offer a significant improvement in overall functionality, there are certain capabilities that have not been included in this release. These capabilities includes:

  • Searching within all activities or standalone activity, irrespective of inside or outside of a community
  • Searching content within file, irrespective of inside or outside of a community
  • Searching content within standalone bookmark, irrespective of inside or outside of a community
  • Searching within bookmarks within a community

  • Searching within files within a community

    Note

    Content search for files within communities is restricted to title searches, ensuring quick and precise access to documents by their names.

Parent topic:Searching Connections