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HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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01. General/Multiple Areas

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Consistent Emoticon support

I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Every content object should be actionable in the same way

Every content object (e.g. Wiki, Forum, Blog, etc.) or item should be actionable in the same way, e.g. like, comment, share, @mention support, notify
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Single editor in all Connections components and Add-Ons

We want one editor in all Connections components and Add-Ons incl. consistent image upload dialog in all components. Today we have different editors in many components.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Produce a ‚Connections for Dummies’ GUI

Despite enhancing the GUI and allowing varios home pages, we need to tackle the issue of complexity. A simplified GUI for a homepage, Profiles, Files and Ideation Blog that has less features but is dead simple would help adoption like for blue col...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Handle confidentiality for sharing files via link from closed community

With CR4 sharing a file via link has been introduced. While this is a great way of sharing files from communities as well as the Files application, this feature can become an issue once a file is shared from a closed community. Sharing a file via...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Add like possibility to comments

Please add the possiblity to "like" a comment into the next release
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

enhance type ahead search on Connections to find people by tags

The users wishes to search and look for people by tags not only from the directory search. The user will use the Type-ahead search e.g. directly from Homepage via the Search magnifying glass icon, enter a tag and all available results should be di...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

@mention inconsistencies among Connections versions when using copy/paste method to when inserting user name/email rather than typing it out.

Steps to reproduce:1. Write a list of 3 or 4 names in a text editor (i.e. Notepad++), i.e. Test User1 Test User2 Test User3 2. Navigate to a CKEditor (i.e. status update, blog, forum, etc.)3. Type a "@" symbol in editor.4. Copy and paste the f...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Add support Java 8 for TDISOL.

TDISOL does not work with Java 8. Since Connections 6.0 supports Java 8, TDISOL should support it.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration