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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    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

    Method for performing silent installation of Community surveys

    This is a request to introduce the ability to install Community surveys in silent mode using a response file. Currently this is not available. You cannot even run the installation in console mode, you will receive an error indicating: "Error: The ...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    "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

    Word Cloud in HCL Connections

    Hello, is it possible to implement an additional Word Cloud App to HCL Connections? This exist already in the Web (as example: https://www.wordclouds.com/) , but a direct implementation in HCL Connections would be helpful.
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Clarification

    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

    Exclude IBM approved Open Source Libraries in AppScan to avoid incorrect reporting.

    As part of Phytel engagement project we have got approved list of Open Source Libraries which still shows up as in issue in AppScan, Request you to exclude the List of Libraries so that it will not be reported as an issue in future AppScans.
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement
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