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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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Search - Additional Information when listing results

When listing the search results, add information which shows to which community the found object belongs. Take a look at the attached Screenshot.
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

When registering an external user we received the error "The URL that you are requesting is expired"

When registering an external user we received the error "The URL that you are requesting is expired or invalid java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key INVALID_COMPLETE_REGISTRATION_U...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Add "change summary" to the media-updated newsletter

We got a request from our customer to expand the media-updated newsletter with the field "change summary" you can optionally add when updating a file in Connections. So you directly know the reasons for updating the file without opening it.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Date filter in Advanced Search

When searching for historical information, it's necessary to leave out recent documents from the search results.
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessi...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Make lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality consistent in all components (orient me and community catalog)

For me as a user it is not understandable, why the lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality is implemented differently in different components. It should look and behave the same in all components. For example the back to top button is in...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Improve general performance of the connections web application

Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the ent...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

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.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration