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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    Ability to upgrade CKEditor while keeping Connections version

    It'd be helpful if there is a way to upgrade CKEditor while keeping the Connections version. Currently, the only way to upgrade CKEditor is to upgrade the entire Connections deployment.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve logging options for 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. The task only logs w...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

    I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting tas...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    ConNext Events Export list of attendees

    It shall be possible to export in one click the email list of the people that clicked "I will attend" to a ConNext event or mailto them.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Customer would like to have the default view of Bookmarks (in Communities) to have Comment section added to the default view

    We would like to have a comment field for bookmarks. Requesting that Comments should also show by default.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Moving Ideas between Ideation blog posts

    Unable to move Ideas between ideation blog posts, even in the same community. We do not have option to move ideas between ideation blog post in the same community. If we want to use ideation blog posts like categories/mappings like 'Delivered', 'A...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Survey Rules - interface improvements needed

    When creating rules for a survey the operation is very clunky and could be a lot better to work with. Please improve this. As an example I did the following: I Created a survey with 4 questions that all have a similar type of format. On answer...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enhance Activities

    There is an opportunity to turn Activities into a more powerful project/task management tool: - add optional starting date for todos so they have a duration - add optional links between tasks (depends-on, conflicts-with,...) - add optional priorit...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Option to have guest logon with a 2FA or any other option to force dual authentication

    At this moment guest are invited by a link to there email-address. However we can't be sure that we haven't made a typo or know if others then our guest have access to the emailbox. We like to have an option that the guest can only access the comm...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement
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