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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    Update prerequisits of Python 2.7 for Docs

    Docs Installer needs Python 2.7 which is eol since over an year now and this was already announced 6 years ago! When can we expect an update to an uptodate version of Python?
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 No Plans to Implement

    In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

    It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    The "password reset" feature should also work for internal users

    The ability to reset a password from the login page should also work for internal users and not only for external/guest users. Currently it does sort of work, but internal users get an error when they did change their password
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

    It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    RTE option "Link to Files" not available in standalone activity

    If you go to a ‘’stand alone’’ activity (edited) there is no ‘’link to connections files’' option. 1. Create a standalone activity 2. Inside the standalone activity, add an entry or todo 3. In the description field, the rich text editor provide...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement

    Alarms from Connections events in Notes calendar

    For the integrations from Connections for Notes where you can add community calendars, is it possible that these would trigger alarms, or could be set up that way int he same way regular calendar events can be set up in Notes preferences to create...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    color flag blog posts based on topic category

    ​to be able to select a category for a blog post. based on the category selected the title of the blog post to show up in a specific color + a flag in order to easily see which blog posts belong to a particular category. also to be able to select ...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Activity notification should be on off switchable

    ​With creation of an activity every member will be informed about it. That's OK and reasonable. But later with every single change for example of the wording or some detail, again every member of the activity will get mail notification. That means...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Link Files from other communities

    Currently, it is only possible to link to a file in a Wiki page from the community where the Wiki belongs to. But sometimes it would be very useful if you can link to files from other communities.Please implement the ability to select files from o...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement
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