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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    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

    Make lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality consistent in all components (orient me and community catalog)

    For me as a user it is not understandable, why the lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality is implemented differently in different components. It should look and behave the same in all components. For example the back to top button is in t...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Searching files in connections. Selecting from Results should display path of folders where content uploaded to. This will assist some parties in projects to understand an manage content a lot faster as part of a project team

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    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side. Currently RSS Feed and URL Preview generation is done on the server side. Which mean that from the backend server there are requests done to various external sources in the Internet. From sec...
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Assessment

    ICEC's Integration of Navigation does not display the Wiki's fourth Child in the menu. I want the menu to display the fourth or more.

    Create a new Wiki (First Wiki) and create a child document (Child 1) on it. Create another child document (Child 2) in the child document (Child 1). In addition, create a child document (Child 3). First Wiki | +-Child 1 | +-Child 2 | +-Child 3 ...
    over 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Option to disable the comments on Files

    In our company, files are very often used for user instructions and as a knowledge archive.Especially with the instructions, many users ask questions and provide feedback in the comments on the file pages - which quickly becomes confusing. And a f...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Touchpoint Appreg entry should accept Match statement

    Using match statement in Touchpoint Appreg entry to filter user, but the match statement will not be followed. The match statement is like below: "path": "touchpoint", "payload": { "match": { "user-email": [ "user@test.com" ] } } This is working a...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    CircuitBreaker Messages Associated with Large Number of Calls

    The customer is reporting a lot of CircuitBreaker entries in their logs. Development has stated that this is to be expected when a large number of calls is being made to a given application as it may result in timeouts. The Connections code doesn'...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

    Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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