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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    Request for PROF_SOURCE_URL DB field to be increased from 256 chars

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: The PROF_SOURCE_URL column in the EMPLOYEE table of the PEOPLEDB is VARCHAR(256) characters.However, some customers have complex LDAP search filters. This means that when they perform a TDI synch using this filter, it fails ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types (MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Pictures etc.) to avoid downloading every file before it can be viewed/read.
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Already Exists

    Please improve the escaping capabilities of the CKeditor in Connections

    If a user copies and pasts the contents from e.g. a PowerPoint slide into the editor, the editor sometimes does the wild things.Please improve the escaping capabilities of the CKeditor in Connections.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Show tags in business card

    Tags provide the context of a person. It would be helpful to see this information / tags at a glance in the business card of a person (e.g. a list of tags, most frequent at first)
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Automatic translation of the link to the content title

    It would be great if I copy paste a link from connections into the editor and it gets automatically displayed with the title of the linked content. Of course, user will possibility to change the display text if he wants to (like he can do it today)
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Restore option for individual content

    In Wiki and other components, there's no chance to easily restore an accidentally deleted object e.g. a deleted wiki page. This is a SHOWSTOPPER for productive usage of all features not offering a simple restore option that can be utilized by user...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    Sort comments by number of recommendations

    Currently comments are listed by the order of their entry. For all kinds of comments it should be possible to be sorted by different criteria as: number of recommendations, date, commentator
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Single editor in all Connections components and Add-Ons

    We want one editor in all Connections components and Add-Ons incl. consistent image upload dialog in all components. Today we have different editors in many components.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Extend "Flag for inappropriate use" to Status Updates, Wikis, Activities, etc.

    Currently this is only available on Files, Forums and Blogs - though not consistent. Should be available and consistent for all ways of producing content - including Profiles.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    File too large error - while opening attachment email in IBM Verse

    It is one of IBM Docs limitation, please find below link:- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/docs/text/overview/important_limits_in_docs.html IBM verse use IBM Docs for previewing XL sheet. It supports 30,000 rows and 1024 colu...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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