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 Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

    Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Add granularity to Community Metrics by adding ability to know the exact followers of a Community not just the number of followers

    The request has been made to add granularity to the Community Metrics, so that a Metrics admin can review not only the number of followers to a Community, but who those unique followers are. currently the "Number of unique people following the co...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    GraphQL Support

    Add GraphQL support so we can have a better API experience
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to configure whether Notification Center flyout displays blog images

    Blog entries display in the notification center when, for example, another user @mentions you or likes one of your blog entries. If there is an embedded image in the referenced blog entry, the new notification center does not display the image. Re...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Single copy storage in connection Files

    When end user upload a file to Files, the system should be able to identify if this file existed in Files already. If yes, just add a link, no need to upload it again. It will save much network bandwidth and server storage.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    The Important To Me bar (ITM) in Orient Me (OM) should be the same in CNX mobile

    The user experience of orient me is great. But people get confused when the ITM in OM desktop and OM mobile look different. Right now, the OM ITM is customizable by creating org extensions in the App registry V3. But these customizations do not ap...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Allow more than ten entries in the digest mails

    We started to use Connections API generated activity feed items a lot for our business execution systems. People complain about the fact that only ten out of all entries are sent out via the digest feature by mail. We would like to extend to at le...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Connections Editors: Support pasting mixed content from Lotus Notes client

    Currently, pasting of mixed content (i.e images and text) or multiple images from Lotus Notes is not possible, independent of the editor used (CKEditor/TextBox.io). Pasting either a single image or text works as expected. Request is to add suppo...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Customizer adds javascript at default place

    When we create a customizer app to include a javascript. The customizer adds the javascript file at the end of the page, by default! However, there is no configuration option available to control where the javascript is included i.e either in t...
    almost 2 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review
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