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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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    Consistent Emoticon support

    I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

    Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

    use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Group/Stack events in activity stream

    If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

    Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    GraphQL Support

    Add GraphQL support so we can have a better API experience
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Allow more than ten entries in the digest mails

    We started to use Connections API generated activity feed items a lot for our business execution systems. People complain about the fact that only ten out of all entries are sent out via the digest feature by mail. We would like to extend to at le...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Connections Editors: Support pasting mixed content from Lotus Notes client

    Currently, pasting of mixed content (i.e images and text) or multiple images from Lotus Notes is not possible, independent of the editor used (CKEditor/TextBox.io). Pasting either a single image or text works as expected. Request is to add suppo...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration
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