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 Notify for all content types

    All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cre...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

    Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Bookmarks - Add like and comment

    Please add likes and comments to bookmarks like to any other regular contents.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    Rating system in the wikis

    Using the rating system, users or members can see how good the wiki is. You can also see how much the wikis are being used. A rating system with stars would be helpful.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    Multiple Images upload in status update

    So many customers compare the connections with facebook, as in facebook has a feature of showing multiple images as a set in time line. where in connections has a limitation of single file upload while updating status. Allowing multiple uploads ...
    over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Create events over 24h

    It is desired that you can create events over 24h.As an example:07. 12. 2018 10:00AM until 09. 12. 2018 11:00AM
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow photos in the blog post comments

    Currently you can comment on blog posts only with text. But it would be great if you could add a photo to post a comment.
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Extend time-out while processing the profile information

    There is a timeout error displayed while users are updating their profile information in Connections. Access the profiles, edit it and try to add/ remove or change some information. If the changes weren't saved immediately, there pops out an error...
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Share a file with expiry date.

    Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Customer to have links open in new tabs

    The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review
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