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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    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.
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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...
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Blogs, Wikis and Files view counter increase on page reload

    The view counters in blogs, wikis, and files can be increased by any user by just reloading the page/entry/file multiple times. There is no check on cookie or session ID. In blogs there is a config option that the original author is not counted in...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    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".
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Adding a way to set the users to "read-only" role to everything inside Connections

    A way to set users to "reader-only" role to Connections including Mobile and Plugins to avoid changes when there is a need to copy some data or perform backup will be useful. There is a way to set roles per application but it is good to have an "o...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    TinyMCE to consider Active Content Filtering rules by Connections

    Connections allows to customize Active Content Filter rules. By this, customers are able to adapt blacklist or whitelist to their needs. - Whitelist: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/secure/sec_acf_whitelist_intro.html - Blackl...
    about 6 years 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...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Customize Community Mail Footer Links Using Variables

    While the links in the footer of community notifications can be customized using literal URLs in the associated FTL file, it would be nice to be able to use variables. Using a variable would allow for URL changes within the environment without hav...
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Modify date range of Status Update Search result

    It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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