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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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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.
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

Most Used/followed Tags

Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Support for Chrome extension

There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open ...
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

HCL Connections Touchpoint - "de-at", "de-de", and Other German "Localized" Language

Touchpoint Application/Page, does not accept "localized" language codes. Every time a browser sends the language code like "de-de", "de-at", or similar, the Touchpoint Application loads in English, which is defined as default in "toucpoint.js".
5 months 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...
5 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Offer @ mentions function in all applications

When trying to mention another user in ex. Rich Content app on the community page this is not possible. Users would like to have this option in all aplications since it will help with consistency.
about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

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 ...
9 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Support Request for Oracle 19c for HCL Connections

Customer requests support of Oracle 19c with Connections 6.5 and 7.0 as he plans to migrated to Oracle 19c (12.2.0.3). Oracle 18c will end of support by Jun 30, 2021. and Oracle 19c (successor to 12.2.0.x) is the current Long-Term-Support release:...
almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Under Consideration