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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    Find inactive (= unused) communities

    As an admin of the system there should be also the option not only do filter and find communities (via CAT tool or wsadmin commands) which are inactive in case of the last timestamp of the updated/edited date property (e.g. community has been upda...
    about 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Fix JS errors from external users invite system

    A vanilla CNX 6.5 installation throws JS errors: XML Parsing Error: not well-formedLocation: https://cnx65.internal/selfservice/acl/inviteLine Number 1, Column 1: The mentioned url returns the following JSON: {"access":false} So something is wrong...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Mobile App can't add apps to Community

    Mobile App users can create communities, but they can't add applications, so it is not possible to add e.g., Wikis to this created community. Please add the option to add applications to communities (for owners).
    about 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Admin feature to collect and search all access log - especially when and who accessed what Connections contents.

    I think that all access log is written in Metics DB.Please provide a SQL tool to export access log from Metrics DB by specifying the start date and end date as parameters.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Doubled magnifying glasses in Connections Android App

    Doubled magnifying glasses are displayed when a PDF file is viewed. This is very annoying.Ideally it should show only the PDF zoom magnifying glass symbol and hide the standard zoom option.
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    "Home" button on Connections- finder

    i am a heavy user of the Connections-Finder tool (the phone-guide) and always have to use the browsers "back" arrow one or several times to get back to the starting screen. A "Home" button would help a lot.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Clarification

    Communities with names that contain @ sign are not ranked properly in search results

    A '@' special character is causing the community name to be searched as two terms. E.g. a name like XY@AB-CD is not found as a whole. The sign @ avoids that the whole phrase can be found (e.g. “XY@AB-CD”) or in a good ranking (result page 10 or mo...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    To Do Items - activities. Ability to create workstream notifications/email of upcomming to-do items. This is above and beyond the due date. Specify a date to signal reminder to work item that is due

    No description provided
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Fix small font size of "pre" formattings

    When selecting "pre" as formatting-template, TinyMCE uses a very small font-size (seems to be around 10x). This make it hard to read the pre-formatted code in the editor. This should be increased by default to a few pixel more, so that can be read...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Provide installation media of software

    Some customers request HCL to provide installation media (ex.DVD) of softwareas they were provided by IBM.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement
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