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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    Touchpoint Appreg entry should accept Match statement

    Using match statement in Touchpoint Appreg entry to filter user, but the match statement will not be followed. The match statement is like below: "path": "touchpoint", "payload": { "match": { "user-email": [ "user@test.com" ] } } This is working a...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 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

    CircuitBreaker Messages Associated with Large Number of Calls

    The customer is reporting a lot of CircuitBreaker entries in their logs. Development has stated that this is to be expected when a large number of calls is being made to a given application as it may result in timeouts. The Connections code doesn'...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

    Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Numerical Characters Should be Translated When the Language is Changed

    When a Connections user changes languages from English to a language such as Japanese or Arabic, the words get translated, but the numbers do not. For example, when looking at the Communities Members widget in the Overview page you see "View All (...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Show Subcommunities on the Community Overview Page

    Since CR4 there is the new Community Overview Page. But it does not show Subcommunities. Please fix this or add an option to activate this.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists

    Enable TLS 1.3 scan support for applications

    Support for TLS 1.3 should be added so that applications using TLS 1.3 can be scanned. Currently there is only support for up to 1.2 and we cannot connect to our application to perform dynamic scans.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    No Interactive for the shared article event from Intranet

    ​With the new intranet, we have a better connection between Intranet and Connections, and one of the function is that we can share the intranet article easliy through the "share in Connections " button. but the problem is , for all those shared ar...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    References to ordinary messages

    ​Why do we get permlinks for forum entries but not for all Connections entries — even comments? Technically this shouldn't make such a big difference.IBM should really rework there linking strategy. Currently, it's... hm, let's say heteronegeous.....
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Link to Connections past events

    ​I would like the possibility to have a link to Connections Events in a Community that will also open with the "show Past events" filter activated.Currently this option is not saved in the url, so user might miss this point.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement
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