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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    Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

    Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Rating system in the wikis

    Using the rating system, users or members can see how good the wiki is. You can also see how much the wikis are being used. A rating system with stars would be helpful.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    Multiple Images upload in status update

    So many customers compare the connections with facebook, as in facebook has a feature of showing multiple images as a set in time line. where in connections has a limitation of single file upload while updating status. Allowing multiple uploads ...
    over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Create events over 24h

    It is desired that you can create events over 24h.As an example:07. 12. 2018 10:00AM until 09. 12. 2018 11:00AM
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow photos in the blog post comments

    Currently you can comment on blog posts only with text. But it would be great if you could add a photo to post a comment.
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Actiance Vantage (connections compliance) should support Connections Surveys

    For companies with strict regulatory requirements regarding the interactions in/use of connections, like banks and such, all connections components they use should be covered by their compliance product(s). At the moment Actiance Vantage does not ...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Extend time-out while processing the profile information

    There is a timeout error displayed while users are updating their profile information in Connections. Access the profiles, edit it and try to add/ remove or change some information. If the changes weren't saved immediately, there pops out an error...
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Blog Entries Expiry

    Hello HCL Connections Offering Management, We would like to request an option to set an expiry date for blog entries. This means that after a specific number of days, such as 30 or 90 days, the blog entry will be automatically deleted. Currentl...
    over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Transfer of WIKIs

    Transfering WIKI-Pages from users HOME into a WIKI of a community is just possible with cut & paste for a 'normal' user. Why not 'right click' on the high-Level WIKI-Page and choosing 'COPY' ? Going into the WIKI of the community, 'right click...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    allow an integrated search covering all cnx originated and 3rd party attached content in a single (fulltext) search

    How to add to the seedlist of CNX cloud? Which search tech should we use to be prepared? Solr? Elasticsearch? How will the integration look like?
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration
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