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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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Possibility to move the "Profile" icon to the main location in the Connections side menu

We need the possibility to move the "Profile" icon to the main location (Above the "Homepage" icon) in the Connections side menu via Customizer. Currently, doing so via Customizer, will result in the Profile Icon not showing the default CNX avatar...
8 days ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Ability to disable More menu or custom submenu item from displaying on main level

The "More" menu in the lefthand navigation pane contains the apps that do not display at the main level. After clicking an option on the "More" menu, the selection will display at the top level until a different "More" selection gets clicked. Simi...
10 days ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Help Application Display Language

As of now the HCL Connections Help application does not have a default language setting, nor does it change according to the "preferred language" browser setting of users. Please enhance the Help application to: 1) Allow changes of the default lan...
10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Named Entity Recognition (NER) functionality in HCL Connections

Named entity recognition (NER) helps you easily identify the key elements in a text (or topic), like names of people, places, brands, monetary values, and more. Extracting the main entities in a topic helps sort unstructured data and detect import...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

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...
almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

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 3 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...
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Help button in the left navigation bar of Connections to open the topic of where the user is currently at

Requesting OM to consider changing how the Help button found on the left navigation works on Connections 8. When the Help button is clicked it should open a pop-up information about the current application where the user is at.
3 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review