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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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The "password reset" feature should also work for internal users

The ability to reset a password from the login page should also work for internal users and not only for external/guest users. Currently it does sort of work, but internal users get an error when they did change their password
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

Make the engagement center and Tiny Editors part of the standard Connections that installs with everything else.

There are too many add-ons and third party tools making connections difficult to install, update, and migrate. Please consolidate all pieces owned my HCL in order to make the administration and maintenance less difficult.
over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

Customize Community Mail Footer Links Using Variables

While the links in the footer of community notifications can be customized using literal URLs in the associated FTL file, it would be nice to be able to use variables. Using a variable would allow for URL changes within the environment without hav...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

PDF Export Functionality with MS Teams/ICXT Integration

Add an additional "Save as File" option to allow downloading of the PDF directly instead of leveraging the browser's PDF viewer.
over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

Automatic tagging based on templates

Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Consistent Emoticon support

I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Increase guest invitation deadline

External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists