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?
    about 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

    Change Community catalog view logic for "recent updates" to show updates rather than all reads

    The Trending with My Company view shows the number of "recent updates" for each community. This number is the total number of all events reflected in the ElasticSearch index for each community over the last 7 days. This includes visits and other r...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Under 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

    Requesting the ability to update strings in Highlights app

    Updating product strings in the Highlights app is only available if a deployment has full Connections Engagement Center entitlement. Without it, the strings cannot be modified. Requesting the ability to modify strings without full Connections Enga...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    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

    Touchpoint Appreg entry should accept Match statement

    Using match statement in Touchpoint Appreg entry to filter user, but the match statement will not be followed. The match statement is like below: "path": "touchpoint", "payload": { "match": { "user-email": [ "user@test.com" ] } } This is working a...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Thumbnail not visible (actual mini images of uploaded files) for files (imgaes, pdf etc.), instead general mini image (of pdfs, jpeg) is visible

    When you upload a file ( inside community Library ) general icon of PDF or JEPG is visible as thumbnail, it should be actual image of uploaded file. I've tested it on several environments like Connections 6 CR5,CR4 and on 5.5 versions also.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists
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