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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    Searching for Numbers in Quickresults not working as expected

    When searching for numbers in the quickresults sidebar, no documents are found in quick search. For example if a file name starts with numericals like 11604_test.doc, and if we search with 11604* for doc, it is not listed in the search icon. If th...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    More News Channel Configuration Options

    It would be great if it is possible to specify the amount of news a newschannel can show. For example if I have an ICEC page which uses as news source multiple channels from different communities. Then one can only specify the amount in total wh...
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    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

    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Other LDAP Posibillities - Azure AD Support.

    At the moment there are only LDAP options such as Active Directory, Domino LDAP, Open LDAP. We would like to have the option of connecting an Azure AD for external users as well.
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Already Exists

    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

    Timestamp for the privacyAndGuidelines Field

    Currently in Connections, there is a timestamp for touchpoint in Unix timestamp format, but not specifically for the privacyAndGuideline field. This means that when new privacyAndGuidelines are configured in touchpoint-config.xml in version 1.3 fo...
    over 3 years ago in 09. Administration 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
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