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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    NNTP (native) support - Add to Connections

    Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP is the native format used by the internet for News groups (aka Forums). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol for some details and information. The idea is that this would also be a...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Highlight items in new newsletter (digest) and email notifications layouts: person name, content title, etc.

    To improve readability of the new newsletter and email notification design please, please make the topic/post titles and links to topic/blog/etc. more prominent (different color, bold, ...?) as these are really hard to read for our users. Also thi...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    Can't toggle/save advanced code editor plugin changes

    Another copy of an already reported bug, which the HCL support doesn't accept as bug: I enabled the advanced code editor plugin https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/advcode/ to have syntax highlighting in the editors html code and default fuctions ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Activity - option to send a reminder to the responsible automatically

    If a ToDo is assigned to a user it should be possible to send a reminder to the responsible user automatically, let me say 3 days after the ToDo was assigned.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    enhance Trash page for single activity with items per page option

    Please add the option to select more items per page on the trash page within an activity (activitypage_trash) Users want this option here, too. Show 10 20 50 100 items per page similar like on the activities dashboard,trash. As a workaround you co...
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Wiki markup support

    I do find this wiki not really easy to add new content, as it is either HTML editing (needs an external tool) or Rich Text (rendering messed up with line separation for example). So I ended up spending much more time on dealing with rendering issu...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Surveys - display external Guest user with displayname/loginname and not email address

    It should be possible to see the Displayname of the external user against the loginname or emailadresse in a survey answer.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Support for Elasticsearch 6.x - Connections 6

    Customer driven, uses Elastic 6 today.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Future Consideration
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