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 for underscore inside bookmark URL

    At the moment URL containing _ (Underscore) in the domain name cannot be accepted as a bookmark in Connections. But there are several websites that do have underscores - e.g. HCL Notes and Domino wiki (https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com ) Supporting...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Request to add Crop/Flip/Rotate image editing options to Tiny editors for HCL Connections

    In the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections 6.x, (TinyMCE and Textbox.io) the edit image options crop/rotate/flip are not available. Because of this, users are not able to properly edit images. Go into any Connections application such as Wikis, add an...
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Modify date range of Status Update Search result

    It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
    almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Round profile pictures not consistent through all apps

    With IC5.5 the profile pictures are round instead of rectangular, but the new design is not consistent through all apps/components. Please make it consistent. E.g. on the business cards of people on the different apps/widgets on the My Page on the...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Offer choice of context for automatic tag suggestion

    When adding tags to a blog or wiki page, the automatic suggestions I get when I start typing in the field currently seem to be restricted to the context: I only get suggestions for tags that were already used in this blog or wiki. This can make se...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Preview of images not working with uppercase JPG extensions with Connections Desktop Plug-ins

    If an image file gets uploaded with uppercase file type extension (.JPG/.PNG) through Connections Desktop Plug-ins preview of images are not available.The issue was reported for the preview displayed in the activity stream. For example, if an user...
    about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer / 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Support for Outlook as Feed reader

    When using a feed and subscribing to it in MS Outlook, it is not possible to open the related page. View article does not work. It makes the usage of Outlook as Feed reader for Connections content useless.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

    Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    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
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