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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    Add feedback section in Ideation Blog

    A feedback area would allow an official evaluation of the ideas. It also helps to give the author an appropriate feedback. A separate area next to the comment function would be helpful.
    about 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    For Wikis page URI, encode the fragment identifier hash sign (#) to '%23' in order to avoid being blocked by SiteMinder

    Computer Associates Siteminder still flags the # (hash sign) as an unsafe character in URLs for Internet. Siteminder enforces this rule when passing URL: it blocks the wiki application. The "#" is present in the vanilla wiki URI's query parameter ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    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

    Acitivities of Ask! Bosch (Social Q&A) are not displayed in "My Profile -> Recent Updates"

    Whenever a user makes an entry in Social Q&A (e.g. Ask question, Reply to a question, Comment to a reply) the user expects that this update will be displayed under "Recent Updates" section of the users "My Profile" (../profiles/html/profileVie...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Fix wrong positioned wiki title

    When opening a wiki "MyWiki", you see this title on top. But it's position is fixed. This lead to an UI bug: When incresing the size of the left wiki navbar, the "MyWiki" title isn't moved right like the wiki content does.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Already Exists

    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

    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

    Desktop Plugin for Linux

    As a Linux user, I would love to see the desktop plugin made available for Linux systems as well. So that you can easily access your files without having to launch the browser. This should be possible in a similar way as under macOS? In recent tim...
    over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

    Support More Languages in Code Sample

    Sometimes we at Server Operations need to share some scripts/batch in order to improve our work efficiency. However, we are seeing that the current "Code Sample" doesn't support for PowerShell, batch file, VBS, etc.
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    Thumbnail not visible (actual mini images of uploaded files) for files (imgaes, pdf etc.), instead general mini image (of pdfs, jpeg) is visible

    When you upload a file ( inside community Library ) general icon of PDF or JEPG is visible as thumbnail, it should be actual image of uploaded file. I've tested it on several environments like Connections 6 CR5,CR4 and on 5.5 versions also.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists
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