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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    Calendar as app in community has disappeared in Connections 6.5 On-prem

    In Connections Cloud, it is possible to add more apps than On-prem. Including calendar. Since we are now moving from Cloud to On-prem, a calendar app will be very useful for orientation for community members. Why are apps reduced to Cloud?
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Human readable file names for Connections installation files

    Please produce human readable filenames that were related to the product I'm downloading. Filenames like "CNB75ML.tar" are not very handy, I have no clue that this is DB2, it could be anything. Namings like e.g. db2_version-xyz_linux-x86-x64.tar w...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Connections Invite blacklist of domains which are not allowed to invite

    We have a large set of mail domains and our users don't understand that they aren't allowed to invite internal users within Invite. We don't onboard automatically to Connections, so users invite colleagues through Invite to speed up their access. ...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Make lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality consistent in all components (orient me and community catalog)

    For me as a user it is not understandable, why the lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality is implemented differently in different components. It should look and behave the same in all components. For example the back to top button is in t...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Searching files in connections. Selecting from Results should display path of folders where content uploaded to. This will assist some parties in projects to understand an manage content a lot faster as part of a project team

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    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Kudos boards comment links to "undefined" in v2 newsletter

    The user got notified about a comment added to his card in his regularly newsletter. By clicking those link, we got an error because it links to https://cnxhost/boardsundefined
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

    When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side. Currently RSS Feed and URL Preview generation is done on the server side. Which mean that from the backend server there are requests done to various external sources in the Internet. From sec...
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Assessment

    Create report file download per month

    Customer believes it would be helpful to have a report with file download per month.
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

    Option to disable the comments on Files

    In our company, files are very often used for user instructions and as a knowledge archive.Especially with the instructions, many users ask questions and provide feedback in the comments on the file pages - which quickly becomes confusing. And a f...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration
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