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 Notify for all content types

    All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cre...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Tagging with Watson

    Add suggest tags or auto complete tags for content such as files, forums, blogs, profiles, activities ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Set a Connections Event notification/reminder date & time

    We request that when creating an event that you can set a notification/reminder at certain dates and times, so the system will automatically send these out to participants at the specified reminder time. Also if an event is created with no reminde...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Jump up Button/Scroll Back To Top Button

    A dynamic button on the right or bottom left in the corner of the screen with which you can jump immediately back to the top of the page. At the moment there is such a button only on the community overview list. Why not on the whole Connections we...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Out Of Office Agent in HCL Connections

    There is no change in HCL Connections to mark myself as absent for the holidays. If I address a topic with @ to a person and this person is on vacation, I don't get to know this. If I enter @Name in Connections, there should be a hint above it, li...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

    Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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