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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    Support Notify for all content types

    All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cre...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

    Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Bookmarks - Add like and comment

    Please add likes and comments to bookmarks like to any other regular contents.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    Create events over 24h

    It is desired that you can create events over 24h.As an example:07. 12. 2018 10:00AM until 09. 12. 2018 11:00AM
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Share a file with expiry date.

    Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Customer to have links open in new tabs

    The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review

    Rename Pinned to Favorites in Files

    The "Pinned" term is confusing and incorrect. A pinned item usually refers to something that is automatically shown at the top of the list (like it is used in forums for instance) but in Files "Pinned" files are listed in a separate view. This beh...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Tagging with Watson

    Add suggest tags or auto complete tags for content such as files, forums, blogs, profiles, activities ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Set a Connections Event notification/reminder date & time

    We request that when creating an event that you can set a notification/reminder at certain dates and times, so the system will automatically send these out to participants at the specified reminder time. Also if an event is created with no reminde...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Migration tool for folders/files of a user

    A migration solution to move folders/files from one user to another, without deleting that user, OR to other options such as a moving that content to a community or download everything to local disks in order to delete it from the user. The abilit...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration
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