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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    Calendar as app in community has disappeared in Connections 6.5 On-prem

    In Connections Cloud, it is possible to add more apps than On-prem. Including calendar. Since we are now moving from Cloud to On-prem, a calendar app will be very useful for orientation for community members. Why are apps reduced to Cloud?
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Human readable file names for Connections installation files

    Please produce human readable filenames that were related to the product I'm downloading. Filenames like "CNB75ML.tar" are not very handy, I have no clue that this is DB2, it could be anything. Namings like e.g. db2_version-xyz_linux-x86-x64.tar w...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Make lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality consistent in all components (orient me and community catalog)

    For me as a user it is not understandable, why the lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality is implemented differently in different components. It should look and behave the same in all components. For example the back to top button is in t...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side

    Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side. Currently RSS Feed and URL Preview generation is done on the server side. Which mean that from the backend server there are requests done to various external sources in the Internet. From sec...
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Assessment

    Touchpoint Appreg entry should accept Match statement

    Using match statement in Touchpoint Appreg entry to filter user, but the match statement will not be followed. The match statement is like below: "path": "touchpoint", "payload": { "match": { "user-email": [ "user@test.com" ] } } This is working a...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    CircuitBreaker Messages Associated with Large Number of Calls

    The customer is reporting a lot of CircuitBreaker entries in their logs. Development has stated that this is to be expected when a large number of calls is being made to a given application as it may result in timeouts. The Connections code doesn'...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

    Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Numerical Characters Should be Translated When the Language is Changed

    When a Connections user changes languages from English to a language such as Japanese or Arabic, the words get translated, but the numbers do not. For example, when looking at the Communities Members widget in the Overview page you see "View All (...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability within Docs to specify multiple font colors within a spreadsheet cell

    This is a request to introduce the ability within Docs to specify multiple font colors within a spreadsheet cell. Currently, within the Docs editor, the only option is to select one uniform color to set the text within the cell. However, when work...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Docs Co-Editing show in depth changes made to files

    As a couple of people were working on a file they did not know they were in co-editing.One left and the other made changes to Values the other Person changed. Him leaving the files the changes of the first person wont be changed and can't be track...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement
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