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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    New Design V8

    In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Additional Metrics Options

    To have additional metrics options to be able to pull from Connections Cloud such as number of people who have downloaded the pronounciation file, be able to look into who has accessed what or what people visit e.g xxxx community to look at trends...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Search API: Allow all profile fields to be returned as like search on Profile API

    Currently full profile fields are not returned using Search API, /search/atom/mysearch/results?component=profiles. So search on Profile API, /profiles/atom/search.do, is needed to collect all Custom Fields for Profiles. The customer would like to ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Display announcement on all pages of the platform

    No description provided
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

    The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Use a reasonably up-to-date python version in the WebSphere app server

    I noticed strange behavior in my python scripts for wsadmin: It was not possible to assign boolean variables. A research showed that our stack uses an extremly old version of python: WebSphere\bin>wsadmin.bat -lang jython -username user -passwo...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Add to tags on profiles

    When I view the profile of someone and his tags, I can see what the profile is tagged with and in list view also how often. If I click on the tag in both views it starts a search for this tag. This makes sense in cloud view but in the list view I ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Link directly to About me page

    I would like the possibility to share by a direct Link my "About me" Profile page. Currently you can share a link to your profile page but not a link that will open your About me page (without having to click on the slighlty hidden About me Tab.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Extension for search

    For a proper integration of 3rd party apps (community widgets, addons, Box and so on) we need extension point for search! Integrated content needs to appear in search, additional search boxes in widgets are bad and you can't tell users to search s...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

    Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement
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