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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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Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
8 days ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Most Used/followed Tags

Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
about 1 month ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Named Entity Recognition (NER) functionality in HCL Connections

Named entity recognition (NER) helps you easily identify the key elements in a text (or topic), like names of people, places, brands, monetary values, and more. Extracting the main entities in a topic helps sort unstructured data and detect import...
4 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Customize Community Mail Footer Links Using Variables

While the links in the footer of community notifications can be customized using literal URLs in the associated FTL file, it would be nice to be able to use variables. Using a variable would allow for URL changes within the environment without hav...
4 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Disable link recognition in Activitystream and Mail notifications

When you create a post (blog, forum, wiki) and add some project number or JIRA ticket number in the beginning, linked to your Helpdesk, or other system, this link gets removed in the mail notification and activity stream. When your JIRA number now...
6 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Modify date range of Status Update Search result

It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
11 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Enable TLS 1.3 scan support for applications

Support for TLS 1.3 should be added so that applications using TLS 1.3 can be scanned. Currently there is only support for up to 1.2 and we cannot connect to our application to perform dynamic scans.
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

TLS 1.3 Support for Connections Blue, Pink and Docs

Support for TLS 1.3 should be added to the complete Connections stack There are already recommendations to disable TLS 1.0 and customers already disabled TLS 1.0 on their servers. Seucurity recommendations currently tend towrds only supporting/rec...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Searching for Numbers in Quickresults not working as expected

When searching for numbers in the quickresults sidebar, no documents are found in quick search. For example if a file name starts with numericals like 11604_test.doc, and if we search with 11604* for doc, it is not listed in the search icon. If th...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review