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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    Link to open files directly in Android app

    Customer is running IC55 + CR1 and mobile devices running Andriod 6.x or newer. What customer really wants to create a link that can be used to automatically launch a file in the in the mobile app. Accodding to the product documentation available ...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Make Limit for first load in Windows Explorer Plug-Ins configurable (default is 500)

    The current versions of the Windows Explorer Plug-Ins initially load a maximum of 500 files in case a community or a user has more than this limit. Users request to have different settings and not to use „Get All“ by a right mouse click everything...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    Possibility to add widgets to Orient Me

    We want to have the possibility to add widgets to Orient Me like we could on the old homepage on the right side (Recommendations, To Dos, Events) in order to show e.g. trending topics (separate self-developed report that shows what's currently tre...
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Proper URL preview in Orient Me

    We want to have a proper URL preview of URLs posted in a status update on Orient Me. e.g. google.com works, but if you post e.g. a link to Amazon, nothing is previewed. The URL preview should work for all links and needs to be consistent.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

    The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Notification requirements

    More notification settings. For example, if a new blog post was created in a community, I would also like to receive a browser notification, not just email notifications.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Integration of other web chat clients like Skype for Business

    Currently, only Sametime version 9 can be integrated into HCL Connections. It would be fantastic if you could also integrate other web chat clients in Connections with presence display. Examples would be Skype for Business, Rocketchat.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Make it possible to place the Survey app in the (home screen) Community on mobile

    We use the survey to get response on the quality of our community and the use of Connections. To enable this we put the survey on the homepage of our community (‘s). This works for the desktop version of Connections but in the mobile app users don...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 5 Under Consideration

    Connections search shall not be exact

    ConNext search shall support partial match — not requires to use wildcards. Moreover current wildcard search does not support special characters. (bug) .
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration
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