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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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Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

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

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 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Under 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 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Improve search results view

Improve the search results view, so that you can clearly see which document/activity/etc... belongs to which community as described in the uploaded screenshot.
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Allow advanced image propertys like borders, css and similar in TinyMCE

The old CKEditor wasn't really awesome as TinyMCE, but it has a few features that were missing in the new one. We miss the ability of right clicking on a image and add certain propertys like adding a border, apply custom css and similar ones. Tiny...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Embedding File Preview

I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

ICXT Newer version release update/information

At present we don't have a portal or way from where we can know the latest version of ICXT release. We like to get an update on flexnet, mail, rss feed or something like that when a new version is available, will be a great work.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

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.
10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Support Rich HTML (& CSS) for Activity Streams

REQUEST: Support a richer set of HTML & CSS for Activity Streams to be at par competitively. For example, products like HipChat and Slack and other activity stream type apps support this. JUSTIFICATION: Perception and eye-candy is core and val...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration