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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    Show Teaser of Blog Entry instead of full entry before A user opens it

    The content of a blog is fully presented to the reader as soon as the blog app is opened. This limits the amount of posts a user can see at a glance and as well impacts the read count of the post since there is no need to open the post.Add a tease...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Make Limit for first load in Windows Explorer Plug-Ins configurable (default is 500)

    The current versions of the Windows Explorer Plug-Ins initially load a maximum of 500 files in case a community or a user has more than this limit. Users request to have different settings and not to use „Get All“ by a right mouse click everything...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

    The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Notification requirements

    More notification settings. For example, if a new blog post was created in a community, I would also like to receive a browser notification, not just email notifications.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Print Activities

    Please add a function to print acitivities.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Copy wiki page as peer or child

    In Wiki resource, we should have an option to copy current Wiki page as peer or child which can help to use as template.
    11 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Connections v8.0 reposition or eliminate tags widget in Community Wikis

    In the v8.0 UI, stand-alone and community Wikis have 3 column layout, table of contents (left), Wiki body (center), and widgets, i.e. Tags (right). In prior versions, the widgets were under the table of contents on the left side. This allows for t...
    almost 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Have a option to sort Wikis Menu

    In the current version (5.5 and 6), the only way to sort the wiki pages is manuallyby dragging and dropping menu items. Like to see some sorting options there.. a specially for large wikis you want to have some sort of sorting mechanism (f.e. sort...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration
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