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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    Provide API to register Embedded Experience Org Extensions

    Currently, the only organization extension that can be managed (create, update, delete) via REST API is Community Apps (widgets). We will need to have the same type of API for all organization extension types, namely *Activity Stream's Embedded Ex...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Clarification

    Introduce the ability to restrict the use of certain search keywords for searching Connections

    Introduce an option/configurable method for administrators to specify a list of restricted keyword strings that users are not permitted to use to search Connections content. Similar to the blacklisting of certain search keywords in the environment.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    The possibility to add a new Tab in the Profile Edit Mode

    There is currently no HCL documentation that describes how to create a new tab in the Profile Editor view where you can find the desired profile extensions. Example: Tab Contact Information and a new Custom Edit Tab --> IT Information
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    "Forum application default view" does not work function as expected

    Under Community Actions > Edit Community > Forums you have the following settings: Communities overview page > Show topic list by default Forum application default view > Show forum list by default From the Overview page if you click o...
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    When clicking on a document in the activity stream unable to open in a new tab

    The communities when opened in a new tab open properly. The activity stream document links when opened in a new tab does not open and shows about:block page. This only works on the Files component.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Forum: Default Option: Mark this topic as a question

    It would be nice, if there would be an option to set in an forum "Mark this topic as a question" for all new creates topics / questions.
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Can the Check box with "include inactive users" be hidden from the catalog search?

    Customer is looking for the option under Search the Directory under Directory >> Display full search options under user Profiles where you want to hide the Check Box option for "Include inactive users in search results".
    almost 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 No Plans to Implement

    pasting HTML format from clipboard removes attributes in Forum Rich Text Editor (TinyMCE)

    When pasting from clipboard rich text format HTML Code, formating such as "<p style="text-align: center" gets removed. by TinyMCE. This worked in the past but in HCL Connections 6.5 CR1 it does not work anymore.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Enable editing of the post (as possible with any platform)

    We are using connections since years and if there is a mistake i have to delete my post or sign it under comments. it would be easier to edite it directly.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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