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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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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Communities with names that contain @ sign are not ranked properly in search results

A '@' special character is causing the community name to be searched as two terms. E.g. a name like XY@AB-CD is not found as a whole. The sign @ avoids that the whole phrase can be found (e.g. “XY@AB-CD”) or in a good ranking (result page 10 or mo...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

To Do Items - activities. Ability to create workstream notifications/email of upcomming to-do items. This is above and beyond the due date. Specify a date to signal reminder to work item that is due

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over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Fix navbar movement and support mail integration officially

Support for the mail integration was officially dropped. We tried to install it and it works in general. One issue we ran into is that the wiki page looses its header as soon as we create or edit a page. The connections menu would appear below the...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

Fix small font size of "pre" formattings

When selecting "pre" as formatting-template, TinyMCE uses a very small font-size (seems to be around 10x). This make it hard to read the pre-formatted code in the editor. This should be increased by default to a few pixel more, so that can be read...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Allow advanced image propertys like borders, css and similar in TinyMCE

The old CKEditor wasn't really awesome as TinyMCE, but it has a few features that were missing in the new one. We miss the ability of right clicking on a image and add certain propertys like adding a border, apply custom css and similar ones. Tiny...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Improve general performance of the connections web application

Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Let me choose the audience when posting a status update from the Activity Stream

Within the mobile app I can choose the target audience of a status update directly when posting it. In the web UI I have to first open the Community and post it there.
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

FIDO2 and WebAuthn

No need for passwords. A 2FA should be possible as well. WebAuthn is the new web standard and truly safe. Just login with a key (and biometric as 2FA).
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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'...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification