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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Ideas

    Make Connections a platform

    Please reconsider the way how partners and customers can extend Connections with new apps or widgets. The current ways are to complicated and require large skills in development. There should be out of box integration with automation tools such as...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Hope a setting to inform user if the download zip file exceeds 2G

    In Connections Files, select some files and download, then it will zip and download. If the zip file exceeds 2G (by default), then at last the download will fail and server reports "out of memory" issue, then server crash. Customer hope: there i...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Improvements on backend SQL queries

    Requesting improvements on backend SQL queries. Observations indicate that: A number of the SQL queries are doing hard parsing Most of them have common text Due to the use of literals (instead of bind variables), we see multiple SQL IDs and diffe...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Resend community email in the event of SMTP error

    According to RFC 821 4.2.2/4.3 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821#section-1), when a successfull connection is opened between client and server but an SMTP service is unavailable, the server responds with a "421 Service unavailable" response inst...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Web document open methods

    There are 3 different methods to open an object - 1.) click on the icon - file is opened read-only, 2.) click on the link - file is opened in read-write mode, 3.) click on download button - file is downloaded with no Connections menu items in Word...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Tagging not possible in all components

    The tagging cloud is available in community for some components (Blog, Wiki, Bookmarks, Ideation Blog, Forum, Feeds) but is missing for other components (Activities, Media gallery)
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Recommendation for similar content for all components

    I would like to have the recommendation/ suggestion for similar content for all coomponents/ content. As of today, the recommendation for similar content is only available for Blogs/ Ideation Blog. This should be there for all componets and all in...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Ease tagging of profiles

    Would be great to ease profile tagging by just clicking the tag instead of typing it ("Add tag(s) to this profile")
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Display and visualize what information is new to you personally

    It would to nice to see immediately what information is new to you personally. E.g.: Display all topics you have already clicked on in another style or color than non-read/ new topics (like emails in Outlook which are bold=unread and normal=read)....
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Non-Members should be able to like or comment on community content

    It should be possible to configure for an IC environment - to make it configurable to have consistent behaviour between moderated and public communities, so that non-members can like and comment on community activity content. The inconsistent beha...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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