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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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06. Orient Me/Homepage

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UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Change the Hyperlink in the Newsletter from /homepage to /social

In the newsletters "Daily Newsletter" and "Weekly Newsletter" the hyperlink at the bottom "Show all updates" shows to the Connections page https://<connections>/homepage. Why isn't the new much cooler site https://<connections>/social ...
almost 3 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 No Plans to Implement

Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
about 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

HTML/css code instead of text/content shown when wiki pages events are shown in Recent Updates

Wikis does not send all appropriate HTML information to the Activity Stream for rendering HTML there. Also, the Activity Stream severely limits HTML rendering in AS posts for security 1) create a wiki page within a community 2) add some HTML and C...
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the us...
almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

Important To Me bar (ITM) in Orient Me (OM) should allow pretty bubbles (with images) that can filter for event generators

When pushing events to the activity stream of people or communities, it gets important to be able to filter events by their generator (like "all salesforce events", "all SAP events" etc.). This is possible using the app registry by using the ITM...
over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

The ITM bar should remember the status, whether open or closed

We have users who like to use the ITM Bar in V8 and some who don't. Those who don't like to use it hide it using the two arrows at the bottom in the browser. However, this setting is not retained. As soon as you refresh the browser page, the ITM B...
about 1 month ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Please make it possible to import browser bookmarks into Connections.

Please make it possible to import browser bookmarks into Connections. Most of the time you have already saved your most important pages as bookmarks, entering them again in Connections is tedious and unnecessary.
about 2 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Implement a traffic light labelling system in order to prioritize new content at first sight

In a very dynamic company environment with ever-changing internal communication, the amount of new information for some employees is hard to grasp all at once on a daily basis. Some content is absolutely crucial for business operations whereas som...
over 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 No Plans to Implement