Hcl Connections
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In late 2021 I had an HCL Connections environment starting swapping, because the AppCluster used more than 30 GB of memory.
The system has
- two nodes
- is installed with the medium-sized deployment option
- About 7500 users with a high adoption rate, because Connections is also used as intranet
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I wrote about font loading from external CDN in the post Hiding The Create Community Button 2nd last year and hoped this is finally fixed for all Connections applications. A good summary on the reasons to not allow external font loading is Blocking Web Fonts for Speed and Privacy .
So I checked with a Connections 7 deployment with the latest CFix (CFix.70.2112) deployed, if this is still an issue with Connections.
In former Connections’ versions we found external fonts loaded in Orient Me (/social
), Communities Catalog (/communities
) and the Admin panel (/cnxadmin/
).
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Some time ago I got the tip from HCL Support, that the Create Community
button will recognize the role community-creator
only when the gatekeeper option CATALOG_CARD_UPDATED
is set to false
.
This is working, but I had to complain, that this option activates some code, which loads fonts from a CDN instead of the local Connections deployment.
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The newsletter in version 2 format has one big disadvantage, we or our users lost the easy links to the topic, author profile or application.
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