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

    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

    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

    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 ...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    support for underscore inside bookmark URL

    At the moment URL containing _ (Underscore) in the domain name cannot be accepted as a bookmark in Connections. But there are several websites that do have underscores - e.g. HCL Notes and Domino wiki (https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com ) Supporting...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Round profile pictures not consistent through all apps

    With IC5.5 the profile pictures are round instead of rectangular, but the new design is not consistent through all apps/components. Please make it consistent. E.g. on the business cards of people on the different apps/widgets on the My Page on the...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support for Outlook as Feed reader

    When using a feed and subscribing to it in MS Outlook, it is not possible to open the related page. View article does not work. It makes the usage of Outlook as Feed reader for Connections content useless.
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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