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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    Mouse over URL Links should display Page Previews in small popups

    There should be a simple option to use "Page Previews" when hovering over URL Links, just like in Wikipedia. When a Wiki/Blog reader hovers with their mouse over a URL Link, a small popup should display a content preview of the linked content. A ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Hide input fields for readers

    Readers in a community have the ability to write a comment or a micro-blog entry. But they can not publish/save it. So why is their the possibility to use the input field. For a greater user experience these fields should be hidden in correlation ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    See IDEACNCTNS-I-601 - not fixed yet!

    EXIF information is ignored by Connections if a picture is taken on mobile and uploaded. Not fixed in current 6.0 CR on server side even if feedback indicates that there was some change in the mobile app to address this.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    RTE in status update (post text field)

    Currently the status won't accept rich text (that include formating, pictures, etc).
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    New Design V8

    In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Change Embedded WebView behavior

    For some deployments it would be helpful if a link that i tap on opens in in either Safari or another App. For some links still embedded is preferred. Idea: Create a domain whitelist for handing over to Operating System Example Scenario: Today...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Additional Metrics Options

    To have additional metrics options to be able to pull from Connections Cloud such as number of people who have downloaded the pronounciation file, be able to look into who has accessed what or what people visit e.g xxxx community to look at trends...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Search API: Allow all profile fields to be returned as like search on Profile API

    Currently full profile fields are not returned using Search API, /search/atom/mysearch/results?component=profiles. So search on Profile API, /profiles/atom/search.do, is needed to collect all Custom Fields for Profiles. The customer would like to ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Display announcement on all pages of the platform

    No description provided
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

    The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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