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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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Ability to import "Meta Data" from pictures as Tags in Connections

There is currently no way to store meta data as tags when uploading a photo. Thus, searching for the "meta data" is not possible. Ex : When a user upload a photo of wind turbines in Connections. The meta data in the photo are "Green Energy" "Wind ...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Support MS SQL for surveys

As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

Adding touchpoint customization

Making customization possible so that for example:- new people can "invite for my network" instead of only following.- add information to "background"- add links to "blog link"
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with textbox.io

Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the textbox.io editor. If you edit a wiki page and click on + icon the "Bookmark" button is not available but exists in blogs, forums, etc. Our users request it. The users need the functionality ...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

Search loading issue in Connections 6.5 - Files & Profiles

Hello, Search is not working on the Connections 6.5 - Files and profiles. I've raised ticket and came to know that this is known issue in Files and Profiles. Kindly look into the issue.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Templates in all components

As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Integration with Microsoft Stream

I would like to be able to conveniently embed videos uploaded in Microsoft Stream from the Connections Editor. My most common workflow is: I upload a video to MS Stream and then embed it in a Connections blog, wiki or forum. It would be very he...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Forced Password Change in Touchpoint

After a user loggs in CnX the first time he runs through Touchpoint and there he should be forced to change his pwd immediately
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

@mentions should only appear in update view if there is an additional text comment

People often use @mentions feature just to make colleagues aware of a certain content without adding additional comment. These updates then should not appear in the updates view also because it is no relevant update without any further text comme...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement