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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    Preview of images not working with uppercase JPG extensions with Connections Desktop Plug-ins

    If an image file gets uploaded with uppercase file type extension (.JPG/.PNG) through Connections Desktop Plug-ins preview of images are not available.The issue was reported for the preview displayed in the activity stream. For example, if an user...
    about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer / 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Support for Outlook as Feed reader

    When using a feed and subscribing to it in MS Outlook, it is not possible to open the related page. View article does not work. It makes the usage of Outlook as Feed reader for Connections content useless.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

    Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Calendar as app in community has disappeared in Connections 6.5 On-prem

    In Connections Cloud, it is possible to add more apps than On-prem. Including calendar. Since we are now moving from Cloud to On-prem, a calendar app will be very useful for orientation for community members. Why are apps reduced to Cloud?
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Human readable file names for Connections installation files

    Please produce human readable filenames that were related to the product I'm downloading. Filenames like "CNB75ML.tar" are not very handy, I have no clue that this is DB2, it could be anything. Namings like e.g. db2_version-xyz_linux-x86-x64.tar w...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Change Community catalog view logic for "recent updates" to show updates rather than all reads

    The Trending with My Company view shows the number of "recent updates" for each community. This number is the total number of all events reflected in the ElasticSearch index for each community over the last 7 days. This includes visits and other r...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Under 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 t...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Requesting the ability to update strings in Highlights app

    Updating product strings in the Highlights app is only available if a deployment has full Connections Engagement Center entitlement. Without it, the strings cannot be modified. Requesting the ability to modify strings without full Connections Enga...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side. Currently RSS Feed and URL Preview generation is done on the server side. Which mean that from the backend server there are requests done to various external sources in the Internet. From sec...
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Assessment

    Show folders a file is shared with in the Desktop connecor "Sharing Details" window too.

    Currently if a file is shared with one or more personal folders this is shown on the sharing tab in the Browser view but not shown on the "Sharing Details" option when using the Windows Explorer Desktop Connector (only shares with people or commun...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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