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		<title>Collaboration Today - Infrastructure - Connections</title>
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			<title>Fun time with kubernetes and dns | Urs Meli's Blog</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2026/03/13/fun-time-with-kubernetes-and-dns/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:20:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We had installed the component pack for HCL Connections 8 in a brand new kubernetes environment. All the containers started and looked fine. Once we routed the traffic through the mw-proxy, Connections stopped working. ]]>
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			<title>Check db2 HADR status with multiple instances</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/check-db2-hadr-status-with-multiple-instances/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/check-db2-hadr-status-with-multiple-instances/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2026 05:41:21 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Check db2 HADR status with multiple instances


Those of you that have to deal with multiple db2 instances on 1 machine know that it is annoying to get a quick overview of the HADR status in 1 go. You need to switch accounts, run the commands, etc...

I created a script you can run as root that will give you an overview, I added some color coding for convenience as well]]>
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			<title>HCL Sametime Chat on Windows - Metrics Deployment</title>
			<link>https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl-sametime-chat-on-windows-metrics-deployment/</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:31:34 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[A step-by-step guide on enabling Metrics for HCL Sametime Chat on Windows.

It’s always good to monitor the usage of any service you deploy. HCL Sametime offers a predefined Grafana Dashboard which helps you gain valuable insights, such as the number of logins and chats at any given time. To enable metrics on HCL Sametime Chat for Windows, there are a few mandatory steps to complete, which I will outline below.]]>
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			<title>Redirects in HCL Connections: Using HCEC, Customizer, and JavaScript</title>
			<link>https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl-connections-hcec-redirects/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 7 Nov 2025 06:55:24 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We have recently faced the following challenge, our goal was simple:

Users in a specific LDAP organization should see a specific HCEC homepage.
All other users should be redirected to the global “My Communities” page.
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			<title>Removing security-auditlog indexes from your OpenSearch cluster</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/17/removing-security-auditlog-indexes-from-your-opensearch-cluster/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/17/removing-security-auditlog-indexes-from-your-opensearch-cluster/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:21:01 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[After my previous article on Querying the OpenSearch index, a colleague and I used the script to take a good look at the OpenSearch index in our environment. That environment, is a large Connections installation (45K users) in the Netherlands. We found two disturbing facts:

    The cluster status was yellow, due to the QuickResults index not having a replica of all its shards
    There was a huge amount of secruity-auditlog indexes, one per day. There were as many as the days passed since our migration to Connections 8

It turns out these two issues were closely related.]]>
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			<title>Querying your OpenSearch index</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/01/querying-your-opensearch-index/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/01/querying-your-opensearch-index/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2025 16:30:08 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[n the old days of Connections, we would check our ElasticSearch indexes through Kibana, but Kibana is no longer part of an HCL Connections Component pack installation. In HCL Connections 8, OpenSearch is a core component powering features like Orient Me, Type-Ahead Search, and Metrics. As an administrator, it’s critical not just to ensure that OpenSearch is running, but to verify that it’s indexing, storing, and serving content correctly.]]>
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			<title>WebSphere 8.5.5 FP27 &amp; HCL Connections… beware!</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/05/02/websphere-8-5-5-fp27-hcl-connections-beware/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/05/02/websphere-8-5-5-fp27-hcl-connections-beware/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2025 03:49:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[HCL Connections 8.0 CR9 currently lists in its system requirements WebSphere 8.5.5 FP26 as its highest supported WebSphere version. However, I suspect that CR10 will try to support FixPack 27, which became available on April 21st. Brave companies might just update their servers with the latest fixpack, and usually that works just fine. This fixpack, however, has introduced changes in outbound TLS certificate hostname validation. What it does is if WebSphere will make a connection to https://example.acme.org, it will check if the certificate that example.acme.org returns contains my server.acme.org in either the hostname or as a subject alternative name (SAN). If it doesn’t, you’ll be greeted with a message:]]>
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			<title>Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere LDAP Security </title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/websphere_troubleshooting_disable_security/</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:54:57 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Most of the LDAP connections from IBM WebSphere Application Server are configured with TLS. So you need to have the root certificate in the WebSphere truststore to connect.

In the past I had several issues where MS Active Directory certificates for LDAPS are only valid for one year. They were automatically recreated on the AD side, and the certificate is not using the domain root certificate but a self-signed one.]]>
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			<title>Migrate MongoDB 5 to 7 for HCL Connections 8 CR9 update</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/mongodb_5_to_7_migration/</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:53:20 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[For HCL Connections 8 CR9, it is mandatory to update MongoDB to version 7. During my first migrations, I encountered some issues and would like to provide workarounds and additional troubleshooting tips to help others with this process.
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			<title>Better Navigation in Connections Scripts</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/connections_scripts_update/</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:47:17 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I haven’t touched the Connections scripts 
 for a long time, but I recently made some minor updates to fix compatibility issues with newer versions and added small scripts to speed up configuration. I also got the documentation script running from the menu.
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			<title>HCL Connections – Docs (Proxy) not Working After Installing IFPH63778 IBM WebSphere Application Server Fix</title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/hcl-connections-docs-proxy-not-working-after-installing-ifph63778-ibm-websphere-application-server-fix/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 7 Feb 2025 02:23:38 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[If you're like me and want to keep your IBM WebSphere Application Servers up to date with the latest patches, you might want to skip the installation of IFPH63778 for 8.5.5.26 version of WebSphere, or at least exercise caution before doing so.

After installing IFPH63778 on my WebSphere servers hosting HCL Connections Docs applications, Docs Proxy application was unable to communicate with the required application servers, effectively breaking my HCL Connections Docs deployment.]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections – Component Pack Update – MongoDB Security Settings Update Issue</title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/hcl-connections-component-pack-update-mongodb-security-settings-update-issue/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 6 Feb 2025 03:19:45 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[During the HCL Connections Component Pack 8.0 CR8 update, some security settings are modified for the MongoDB replica set used by the HCL Connections Component Pack. This is managed by the check-and-update-mongo5-security Kubernetes (K8s) job, which creates the check-and-update-mongo5-security-* pod to change the security settings of the replica set. Once the job completes successfully, the K8s pod and the corresponding job are marked with the status complete(d)

However, in one of the HCL Connections environments I am working on, the job didn’t complete successfully. During my initial analysis, I found the following error in the log of the check-and-update-mongo5-security pod....]]>
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			<title>Indefinitely growing homepage.sr_index_docs table and forgotten search nodes</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/growing_srindexdocs_table/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:17:56 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The last weeks I had twice the issue of a huge homepage database with HCL Connections. Both systems weren’t installed by me, but I reviewed them.

So I know this issues quite well since I faced it the first time years ago. This always happens when you migrate Connections environments side-by-side, and you forget to remove the old search nodes.

sr_index_docs is used to make all search nodes indexing newly upload files. When each search node has indexed the file, the entry gets removed from the database. As the old nodes are no longer running, they can’t index, and so these entries never get deleted.

In larger environments the table grows to millions of documents and the database size grows from some GB into the hundreds of GB. You see this growth mainly during database backup, or when you want to move the data to a new machine. So often nobody recognizes the huge waste of space.]]>
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			<title>Creating an IBM HTTP Server key db from a .pfx file </title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/01/05/creating-an-ibm-http-server-key-db-from-a-pfx-file/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/01/05/creating-an-ibm-http-server-key-db-from-a-pfx-file/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 7 Jan 2025 02:41:46 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[It’s a question that I get quite often. “Can you create a IHS key database for me from this pfx certificate”? Multiple of our customers use IBM HTTP Server. Either for HCL Connections, but also as a reverse proxy for other services. Most of those customers use a wildcard certificate for their IHS server that has to be renewed each year. As I hate this kind of repetitive work, I created a script to do it for me. As it could be of use to others, I decided to create a blog article about it.]]>
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			<title>Disable PDF Export in HCL Connections 8</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/disable_pdf_export_in_hcxt/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Dec 2024 07:47:03 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[PDF Export sometimes uses a lot of resources and disabling helps to stabilize the environment

I had some issues with PDF export functionality in HCL Connections the last weeks.

The server became unresponsive multiple times due to high load from PDF exports. To quickly address the issue, the simplest solution is to disable the PDF export feature by configuring the icxt.pdfexport.access.requiredrole property in the Resource Environment Entries.]]>
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			<title>Changing the file size limit for a community</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/11/29/changing-the-file-size-limit-for-a-community/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/11/29/changing-the-file-size-limit-for-a-community/</guid>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:27:28 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[By default, a HCL Connections community can contain 500 MB of files in the Files widget. Depending on what kind of content is posted in the community, that might not be enough. It’s possible to change the file limit, both for communities and for personal files.]]>
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			<title>Apple push notification certificates expire on 4th of July 2024</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/push-notification-update/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/push-notification-update/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:23:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Push notifications certificates in HCL Connections 8 CR5 and CR6 need an update before 4th of July
Last week I checked some HCL Connections 8 CRx downloads in Flexnet and recognized these packages available since 2024-06-13: APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) certificates renewal for 2025.
Sounds normal, these updates need to be installed each year. First, I checked for the knowledge base document mentioned in the file name . It’s not published until now.
So I downloaded the package and extracted the content. The included certificates are valid from 2024-04-25 to 2025-05-25, so they start and end in the middle of the year.]]>
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			<title>Installing Huddo Boards on WebSphere-only Connections </title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/06/24/installing-huddo-boards-on-websphere-only-connections/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/06/24/installing-huddo-boards-on-websphere-only-connections/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:21:08 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Let me clarify what this article is about. Huddo (also known as ISW) is selling 2 versions of their Boards product:

Kudos Boards – The Java application that can be installed on WebSphere. Active development has stopped a few years ago
Huddo Boards – The product consisting of several containers, which can be installed on Kubernetes or a container engine like Docker. A version with limited functionality is part of the HCL Connections component pack and known as Activities Plus. This product is actively being developed and also available for other platforms.

Although the Connections Component pack was introduced in version 6 already, many companies refrained from installing it due to the serious amount of extra infrastructure needed to run these components, which includes a Kubernetes cluster. We call these the WebSphere-only Connections installations, as they only include the WebSphere stack part of Connections.

So what if you would like to use the full power of Huddo Boards without having to install a Kubernetes cluster? That’s what this article is about.]]>
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			<title>Be careful with search-admin role in HCL Connections </title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/search-admin/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/search-admin/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 3 May 2024 05:37:46 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I showed, in several slides and sessions, how you can use the search-admin role in the search application of HCL Connections for troubleshooting and reviewing some key configurations.
In several environments, my user or other administrative users have this role, just to access the link to /search/serverStatus for example.

Be aware, when you assign the search-admin role in the search application to a user, the advanced search will not return any result.]]>
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			<title>Installing wireguard on CentOS Stream 9 </title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/01/14/installing-wireguard-on-centos-stream-9/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/01/14/installing-wireguard-on-centos-stream-9/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:37:25 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[As I do a lot of my research on new Domino versions, Connections versions and HCL DX on my own server at home and as I’m often not at home, I figured I needed a VPN tunnel to my server, so I can work as if I am home. Wireguard has become kind of the de facto standard for these kind of situations, so I looked into installing it on my CentOS Stream 9 host.]]>
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			<title>Troubleshooting Top Updates in HCL Connections</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/troubleshooting-topupdates/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/troubleshooting-topupdates/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 5 Dec 2023 02:25:27 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Orient Me shows Top Updates on the startpage of Connections, but sometimes this view is empty, how is this generated?
Last week, I had three systems with issues displaying the Top Updates in the Orient Me. So I tried to find out which applications and containers are involved in generating the content for this view.
First, we need to know that Top Updates are part of the Component Pack, and the content of Latest Updates is the Activity stream data, which is read from the homepage database. 
If the Top Updates tab is not visible after deploying the Component Pack, check LotusConnections-config.xml; the serviceReference for orientme needs to be enabled. There is only one serviceReference allowed for an application in this file, so check for duplicate definitions when the tab is still missing.]]>
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			<title>Hide widget from Highlights</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/hide_hcec_widgets/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/hide_hcec_widgets/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:53:26 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[With HCL Connections 6.5 and later, we got the add-on HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka CEC, HCEC, ICEC or XCC) included in a normal HCL Connections deployment.

The HCL Connections license contains the supplement that HCEC can be used within Communities and is the base for the Highlights application. All other options are hidden and could be enabled in LotusConnections-config.xml (set <genericProperty name="icec.light">false</genericProperty>), but then you need to order the HCL Connections Engagement Center license.]]>
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			<title>Couple of things to watch out for when applying CR’s to HCL Connections</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/couple-of-things-to-watvh-out-for-when-applying-crs-to-hcl-connections/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/couple-of-things-to-watvh-out-for-when-applying-crs-to-hcl-connections/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 7 Nov 2023 10:14:24 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I was updating a couple of Connections environments to CR4 and some of them are using SSO using OIDC and a custom database name for ICEC ( so not ESSAPPS)]]>
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			<title>Security Directory Integrator connecting to Active Directory LDAPS </title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/sdi-connect-to-ad-ldaps/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/sdi-connect-to-ad-ldaps/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 3 Nov 2023 02:28:27 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Unknown Author</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I had one Connections’ environment that I wanted to switch from OpenLDAP to Active Directory LDAP. The old OpenLDAP environment used LDAPS to connect, and so I assumed that the change was done quickly.
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			<title>Migrate MongoDB in HCL Connections Component Pack 8</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/migrate-mongodb-data-for-cp/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/migrate-mongodb-data-for-cp/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 03:31:59 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The official documentation, “Migrating data from MongoDB 3 to 5”, 
 wants to dump the MongoDB databases in 3.6 and then restore this data into the newly deployed MongoDB 5.
One issue with this process is that we can’t run the two MongoDB versions in parallel on Kubernetes because the provided helm charts and container for MongoDB 3.6 stop running after Kubernetes 1.21. On the other side, the helm chart providing MongoDB 5 can’t be installed on those old Kubernetes versions. So the process to update is:
Migration process 


Dump databases in MongoDB 3.6 (version delivered with Connections 7)
Update Kubernetes to 1.25 or 1.27
Restore MongoDB databases to version 5.0
So, you have to plan the process in advance because it is difficult to get the data when you forget something.


width=device-width,initial-scale=1,user-scalable=no Migrate MongoDB in HCL Connections Component Pack 8 · stoeps 49.642538;8.638950 DE Heppenheim, Germany 49.642538, 8.638950 Heppenheim The official documentation, “Migrating data from MongoDB 3 to 5”, wants to dump the MongoDB databases in 3.6 and then restore this data in]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections Mail Plug-in Deployment – Missing Information in the Documentation </title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/hcl-connections-mail-plug-in-deployment-missing-information-in-the-documentation/</link>
			<guid>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/hcl-connections-mail-plug-in-deployment-missing-information-in-the-documentation/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 00:18:43 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[If you are planning to deploy the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in, take note of the KB0092821 knowledge base article. This is a mandatory step that must be done in HCL Connections 8 CR1 and newer environments. If the steps described in KB0092821 article are not followed, you will get the following error message in the browser console:  Error: Unable to load https://<mailserver_hostname&gt; status: 403
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			<title>Build mongodb5 image for Component Pack with Buildah</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/buildah-for-cp/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/buildah-for-cp/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 07:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Build Mongodb5 Image For Component Pack With Buildah]]>
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			<title>Issues configuring the Sharepoint widget for Communities</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/issues-configuring-the-sharepoint-widget-for-communities/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/issues-configuring-the-sharepoint-widget-for-communities/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 6 Apr 2023 11:49:29 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[On a recent deployment of HCL Connections I struggled getting the SharePoint widget to work.]]>
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			<title>Quick Tip: Stashing Log Files From Domino Testcontainers</title>
			<link>https://frostillic.us/blog/posts/2023/3/28/quick-tip-stashing-log-files-from-domino-testcontainers</link>
			<guid>https://frostillic.us/blog/posts/2023/3/28/quick-tip-stashing-log-files-from-domino-testcontainers</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:55:01 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jesse Gallagher</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I've been doing a little future-proofing in the XPages Jakarta EE project lately and bumped against a common pitfall in my test setup: since I create a fresh Domino Testcontainer with each run, diagnostic information like the XPages log files are destroyed at the end of each test-suite execution.]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections 8 – PDF Export Issues After Installing CNX in a Clustered WAS Environment </title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/hcl-connections-8-pdf-export-issues-after-installing-cnx-in-a-clustered-was-environment/</link>
			<guid>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/hcl-connections-8-pdf-export-issues-after-installing-cnx-in-a-clustered-was-environment/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:12:31 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Recently I encountered an issue with PDF Export, right after the installation of HCL Connections applications in a multi-node, clustered, IBM WebSphere Application Server environment. This problem only occurs in a multi-node WAS environment.

In the HCL Connections GUI, in the “PDF Export Access” settings of the”Edit Community” menu (Community –> Community Actions –> Edit Community –> PDF Export Access), the following error was displayed:
Error 500: org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Handler dispatch failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ibm/ess/ic/ic360/security/tai/Ic360ImpersonateUserTAI]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections – Journey to Connections 8</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2023/02/27/hcl-connections-journey-to-connections-8/</link>
			<guid>https://www.ume.li/blog/2023/02/27/hcl-connections-journey-to-connections-8/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:10:22 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[After the Connections 8 CR1 had been released, we upgraded our production environment. This is our journey]]>
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			<title>Always get the latest Huddo version in HCL Connections</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/always-get-the-latest-huddo-version-in-hcl-connections/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/always-get-the-latest-huddo-version-in-hcl-connections/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 03:09:31 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We have documented how to connect to our version, but that documentation is focused on a manual install of Component pack and connecting to our systems from the start. I want to show how to do it if Boards is already installed and running using the automation scripts. You can obviously follow this guide if you did a manual install and connected to the HCL resources, I am just mentioning some specifics about the HCL automation you can ignore.]]>
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			<title>The state of Social Business continued – Meetup</title>
			<link> https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2023/01/23/the-state-of-social-business-continued-meetup/</link>
			<guid> https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2023/01/23/the-state-of-social-business-continued-meetup/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 04:14:33 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Femke Goedhart</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The last HCL Ambassadors meetup we did last December had a bit of an open end and therefor we would like to continue where we left off: With the state of social business and the position of HCL Connection in it.

Join us and let us know!]]>
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			<title>Certificate Information tool </title>
			<link>https://www.xpagedeveloper.com/2023/certificate-information-tool</link>
			<guid>https://www.xpagedeveloper.com/2023/certificate-information-tool</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:40:04 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Fredrik Norling</dc:creator>
			<content:encoded>
				<![CDATA[SSL certificates, SAML certificates, Signing certificates the number is long of different kinds of certificates and you might need to check the name of a certificate, the start or end date or perhaps the thumbprint.

I use the tool mainly to get end dates of certificates sent to me from customers because I hate when they expire and need to be changed without any preparation. And the worst kind that most administrators often miss is the certificates that is auto created i.e. in ADFS servers, Azure Enterprise apps, Okta]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections Docs 2.0.2 High CPU load</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/08/hcl-connections-2-0-2-high-cpu-load/</link>
			<guid>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/08/hcl-connections-2-0-2-high-cpu-load/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:32:03 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We noticed on at least 2 environments, that the CPU load was around 100%, Memory usage 100% and Swap used 100%. Prior to the update, the servers ran happily and did not show any issues. The process list (htop) showed a lot of /opt/libreoffice7.2/program/soffice.bin tasks.]]>
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			<title>Keycloak and Kerberos</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/23/keycloak-and-kerberos/</link>
			<guid>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/23/keycloak-and-kerberos/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:29:33 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Goal:
Login to your Windows Client and do not have to login to Connections

Motivation:
Sure you can configure SPNEGO directly in WebSphere. But you might want to support OTP/WebAuthn for external users which are not in your AD?]]>
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			<title>Migration issue on opnact when using dbt.jar</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/migration-issue-on-opnact-when-using-dbt-jar/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/migration-issue-on-opnact-when-using-dbt-jar/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:59:07 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[While I was migrating a Connections 7 on premises customer to our cloud using the dbt.jar tool, I came across the issue that the OPNACT database did not want to migrate, it threw an error on the OA_NODE table stating that the source table has 38 columns and the target one 37

The column that did not exist on the target was OWNERMEMBERUUID

Now the target database is a fresh cnx7 created database from the cnx7 scripts and the creation script does not contain this column. So I started looking through the database scripts to check what happened to that column over time.]]>
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			<title>How to perform a db2 redirected restore</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/how-to-perform-a-db2-redirected-restore/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/how-to-perform-a-db2-redirected-restore/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:58:01 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Sometimes you need to restore db2 databases on a different machine. For example during on prem to cloud migrations, or when moving database servers during an upgrade for Connections. In most cases some of the paths will be different. The LOGPATH is gonna be your main issue. Goal of this post is to show you how to restore the database and change the LOGPATH setting inside the database you are restoring on the fly.]]>
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			<title>Huddo Boards &amp; Minio problems – Read before you restart!</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2022/11/19/huddo-boards-minio-problems-read-before-you-restart/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2022/11/19/huddo-boards-minio-problems-read-before-you-restart/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:06:06 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Last week I got the unpleasant surprise of a no longer working Huddo Boards for Component pack installation at a customer after I had rebooted my Kubernetes environment. I had to reboot this environment after I updated the Kubernetes certificates. Of course, after a change you immediately think that your problem is related to the change you just made, but in this case the only relation was with the restart, which means that this can happen to everyone running Huddo/Kudos Boards for Component pack or Huddo Boards Docker.]]>
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			<title>Update Elasticsearch certificates in Componentpack · stoeps</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/update-elasticsearch-certificates/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/update-elasticsearch-certificates/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 5 Sep 2022 02:04:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Elasticsearch in HCL Connections Componentpack is secured with Searchguard and needs certificates to work properly. These certificates are generated by bootstrap during the initial container deployment with helm.
These certificates are valid for 10 years (chain_ca.pem) or 2 years (elasticsearch*.pem) and stored in the Kubernetes secrets elasticsearch-secret, elasticsearch-7-secret. So when your HCL Connections deployment is running for 2 years, the certficates stop working.
The documentation on bootstrap is a little bit misleading and my suggested update does not make it into a technote or documentation update since nearly one year.
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			<title>Change spellchecking to hunspell in TinyMCE</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/change-spellchecking-to-hunspell-in-tinymce/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/change-spellchecking-to-hunspell-in-tinymce/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:54:56 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The last years I had issues with application servers using large amount of CPU and even hanging application servers running the Tiny Spellchecking service. It ended with disabled spellchecking in the Tiny editors config.js.
Now after updating to the actual editor version TinyMCE 5.10.2 we decided to reenable the spellchecker and the first days it looked like, that the issue was really fixed. Sadly after about a week the first application server started to use 800% CPU just for the server hosting the spelling service.]]>
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			<title>Fix some annoyances with Customizer · stoeps</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/fix-some-annoyances-with-customizer/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/fix-some-annoyances-with-customizer/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 6 Jul 2022 05:06:14 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I created a git repository  with some smaller CSS files to fix some annoyances within HCL Connections.

I started with this to prevent Orient Me to load fonts from external URLs or Elasticsearch Metrics to break the UI on larger screens. These issues are solved after the last updates I got from support, but Blogs and Tailored Experience Wizard can be improved with some simple rules.]]>
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			<title>Restart Orient Me pods after Internal Server Error</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/restart-orientwebclient/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/restart-orientwebclient/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 4 Jul 2022 04:59:28 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[After rebooting the Kubernetes server for HCL Connections Componentpack, I sometimes see that Orient Me is not working and just shows:
{"error":{"statusCode":500,"message":"Internal Server Error"}}
I think one of the liveness checks could be improved, but for now the following commands restart just the necessary amount of pods to get Orient Me back running.]]>
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			<title>Elasticsearch7 Update</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/elasticsearch7-update/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/elasticsearch7-update/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 8 Jun 2022 03:56:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[CVE-2021-44228 was a very serious problem end of 2021, and we are still finding new occurrences, or security teams scan servers and find vulnerable log4j files. Don’t get me wrong most of these occurrences are not vulnerable any more, because the JVM is hardened like in the Elasticsearch 7 containers, or they use of the JVM parameter -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true.

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			<title>K8s Certificate Manager with Let’s Encrypt</title>
			<link>https://blog.nashcom.de/nashcomblog.nsf/dx/k8s-certificate-manager-with-lets-encrypt.htm</link>
			<guid>https://blog.nashcom.de/nashcomblog.nsf/dx/k8s-certificate-manager-with-lets-encrypt.htm</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 5 May 2022 04:41:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Daniel Nashed</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Domino certificate manager works like a charm and is the best option for native Domino 12 certificate management.
But in a K8s environment you might want to better have certificates deployed outside Domino in front of your Domino K8s service.
Mostly you will use a so called Ingress controller, which offloads your TLS traffic.

I took a look into https://cert-manager.io/docs/concepts/certificate last night.
It turned out the issues I ran into only occurred because of a messed up k3s installation.
After I re-created my server, I was ready to go in minutes.
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			<title>Automatic Lock/unlock on opening files</title>
			<link>https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2022/04/29/automatic-lock-unlock-on-opening-files/</link>
			<guid>https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2022/04/29/automatic-lock-unlock-on-opening-files/</guid>
			<pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2022 02:59:14 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Femke Goedhart</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[HCL released a new version of the HCL Connections desktop plugins last month (March 23rd 2022) that included a new feature: auto locking.

Now back in the day when we still had CCM, the automatic prompt to checkout a file or not on opening was a great thing and sorely missed on the normal personal and community files. There, you had to manually lock and unlock each file when opening and closing them if you wanted to prevent others from working on the files simultaneously. So suggestions were made and requests sent in by multiple people.
And with the March 2022 release it was finally implemented. There is now the option to be prompted to lock a file on opening it.]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections 7.0 : how fix possible issue on side by side database migration with dbt.jar for Wikis,Files and Metrics db</title>
			<link>https://blog.msbiro.net/2022/04/hcl-migration-database-issue-with-dbt.jar-for-wikis-files-metrics-how-fix-it.html</link>
			<guid>https://blog.msbiro.net/2022/04/hcl-migration-database-issue-with-dbt.jar-for-wikis-files-metrics-how-fix-it.html</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:57:23 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Matteo Bisi</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[In this period I'm working on HCL Connections migrations from 6.0 to 7.0 and I'm using the side by side approach. While I'm during this job, I prefer to use the dbt.jar for database migrations because this could help me to identify and fix issue at db schema level.

In this migrations I had some issue with Wikis, Files (the same for both db) and  Metrics]]>
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			<title>To Doc or not to Doc… Global ambassadors call </title>
			<link>https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2022/03/25/to-doc-or-not-to-doc-global-ambassadors-call/</link>
			<guid>https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2022/03/25/to-doc-or-not-to-doc-global-ambassadors-call/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:28:58 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Femke Goedhart</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[This months edition of the global super users / ambassadors call we will be kicking off with the theme of To Doc or not to Doc…

Do you use Docs with your HCL Connections or not? And why? What options are there and what are the needs for collaborative (and simultaneous) document editing?]]>
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			<title>Disable Highlights App in Connections 7</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/disable_highlights_app_in_connections7/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/disable_highlights_app_in_connections7/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:08:48 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Today I got the question of how to disable the highlights app in Connections 7. When you follow the documentation for Connections 6.0CR6 
 you get an error message (and the document is not available in Connections 7).
I commented out the widget definition in widgets-config.xml like described in the documentation for the former release.
Sychronize the nodes
Restart the application server hosting WidgetContainer and Communities Application
Now create a new community and you will get one of the following errors]]>
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			<title>Add offset to community overview anchor links</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/add_offset_to_community_overview_anchor_links/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/add_offset_to_community_overview_anchor_links/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 02:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Our users are often building Highlights and Overview pages within HCL Connections Communities, where they link from one description widget to RTE or from one RTE widget to another.
We found that these anchor links often disappear behind the top navigation bar and the users wonder what happened.]]>
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