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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    Sort To-Do-Items in Activities

    Actually the list of to-do-items in a community cannot be sorted by any field. But to work with this tool, it should be possible to sort the items, eg. according to the due date. You only see the date of creating a to-do-item, the creator and the ...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    The tag cloud in a wiki shall behave as in forum/blog with the possibility to refine with related tags

    If you filter in a wiki by tag, you can not view the related tags to refine - like in forum or blog. The tag cloud is not visible any more when you search in a wiki by tags. Same UI as for forum and blog shall be implemented in Wiki.
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    @mention from an Activity Entry notification mail

    Please correct the @mention in activities updates' mail notification. 1. Create an Activity. (Standalone or Community one, it does not matter)2. Add another user as a Member. 3. Create a new Entry. 4. In the Description field, add an @mention fo...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Templates in all components

    As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to upgrade CKEditor while keeping Connections version

    It'd be helpful if there is a way to upgrade CKEditor while keeping the Connections version. Currently, the only way to upgrade CKEditor is to upgrade the entire Connections deployment.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    No remote css, js or fonts from CDN or whereever

    After Community Catalog and Orient Me, now the admin panel loads css, fonts or js from external resources. See all avantages and concerns here: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1334 This is a security issue at most of our...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

    When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

    When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

    I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting tas...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Update the Connections logo in the daily newsletters (Connections MT)

    The daily newsletters from Connections MT are great, but the old Connections logo are in them. As I understand it, it is in the code?
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment
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