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Performing a search

Use one centralized search box to search for anything in HCL Connections.

With Connections search, you can often find what you're looking for without leaving the current page by just clicking one of the suggestions following your entry. If not, one click gets you to a full search page where you can easily use a variety of filters to broaden or narrow the scope.

To perform a search:

  1. Click in the search box to bring up a list of recent searches and recently visited pages. To expand either list, click View all.

  2. In the search box, begin typing a word or phrase. Then do one of the following:

    • Finish typing and choose a suggested scope, for example in this Community, which takes you to a full search results page filtered by that scope. Or just click the search icon to display the results for all content, and choose the filters you want then.

      Example of search scope suggestions

    • Click one of the typeahead suggestions to open the relevant community or profile.

    • On the search results page, you can filter your search results. Here are some tasks you can do with filters:

    • Filter the results by app and by one or more tags, people, and dates.

    • Use the Filter by field to see only content that you created, made comments to, and so on.
    • Broaden the scope of the search, for example if you started searching from a community wiki, you can easily expand your search to include all content in that community or across all of Connections. Tip: To see all content related to you across Connections, use your name as the search term and then on the results page set the Filter by field to My Content.

    For more on filtering, see Filtering search results.

  3. When done with your search, you can click the close search icon Close search icon beside the title bar to return to the page you were last viewing.

Note

The full features mentioned require that your organization has deployed Component Pack for Connections. If your organization doesn't have Component Pack and you still don't see the results you want, click Advanced Search. For information on the advanced search page, see Performing an advanced search.

In app Searching

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, activities, 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 new search functionality extends to standalone applications such as Community, Blogs, Wiki, Forum and Activties. As well as within community-specific contexts, enabling users to search comprehensively across Blogs, Forums, Activities, and Wikis. Additionally, content search for files within communities is restricted to title searches, ensuring quick and precise access to documents by their names. These improvements provide a seamless and intuitive content discovery experience to boost productivity and enhance collaboration.

Parent topic:Searching Connections