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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    Find all my own comments via filtering in connections

    If a user has marked e.g. a blog-content by adding a comment (and e.g. forwarding this to collegues of own department), it is not possible to find all own comments by setting such a filter. Only if one follows the relevant community
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Display announcement on all pages of the platform

    No description provided
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

    The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add Ephox Textbox.io to the cloud as a rich text editor option

    Customers have requested the ability to switch the default rich text editor for Connections Cloud.A lot of our users need the functionality to copy/paste or drag/drop files and images into the rich text editor window for blogs, wiki's, forums, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

    Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Use a reasonably up-to-date python version in the WebSphere app server

    I noticed strange behavior in my python scripts for wsadmin: It was not possible to assign boolean variables. A research showed that our stack uses an extremly old version of python: WebSphere\bin>wsadmin.bat -lang jython -username user -passwo...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Forum Moderation rights only=without being community owner

    Currently to be able to moderate a Forum I couldn't find the possibility to give Moderation Rights for a forum only. By moderating I mean for example editing topics that you haven't created yourself. (The only way I know is that you have to be a C...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    ToC macro for Wiki is not working properly > does not support H1, H5, H6

    ToC macro for Wiki is not working properly > does not support H1, H5, H6
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    SVG image files not viewable in "previously uploaded images" section for Blogs

    Problem description:SVG files are not displayed in the "previously uploaded image" section of blog posts (after you hit Insert Image). To view current behaviour:* Using an Admin user for Blogs, add SVG file types to the allowable file upload types...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Forum description does not support linking of URLs

    Customer wants CKEditor (RTE) functionality to allow clickable http links in Forums Descriptions. Currently this is working as designed and the data saved here is simple text. There is no intention for rich text editor component in those sections ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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