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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Add a Teams Chat to a ConNext (sub)community.

Assign / allocate a Teams Chat to a (sub) community to make it visible to a broader audience + create more transparency.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Publish an update in Connections and MS Teams simultaneously

It would be great if the user could publish updates across multiple channels at the same time, e.g. on Connections and MS Teams. The user would save time and energy if he had to create an update only once.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Using IBM Docs as a previewer for community files in wiki pages iframes

We want to publish previews on documents from the files library in some guideline-style wiki pages. Therefore we used the ibm docs preview URL as an iframe src URL in a wiki page. This works fine. Now we encounter additional feature request from o...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Update prerequisits of Python 2.7 for Docs

Docs Installer needs Python 2.7 which is eol since over an year now and this was already announced 6 years ago! When can we expect an update to an uptodate version of Python?
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 No Plans to Implement

Searching for Numbers in Quickresults not working as expected

When searching for numbers in the quickresults sidebar, no documents are found in quick search. For example if a file name starts with numericals like 11604_test.doc, and if we search with 11604* for doc, it is not listed in the search icon. If th...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

TinyMCE to consider Active Content Filtering rules by Connections

Connections allows to customize Active Content Filter rules. By this, customers are able to adapt blacklist or whitelist to their needs. - Whitelist: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/secure/sec_acf_whitelist_intro.html - Blackl...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

The "password reset" feature should also work for internal users

The ability to reset a password from the login page should also work for internal users and not only for external/guest users. Currently it does sort of work, but internal users get an error when they did change their password
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

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 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Assessment

Replace status updates with sametime chat

Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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