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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Ideas

    Templates in all components

    As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH)

    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH) - To use CEPH in place of NFS. - To use default security privileges by OpenShift. - To use UID assigned by OpenShift.
    about 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Do not translate highlights

    The new app highlight is translated into German with "Schwerpunkte". The automatic translation of the Knowlegde Center translates it into "Besondere Funktionen" Do you have to translate the term? The "Tags" have not been translated. It's good that...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to upgrade CKEditor while keeping Connections version

    It'd be helpful if there is a way to upgrade CKEditor while keeping the Connections version. Currently, the only way to upgrade CKEditor is to upgrade the entire Connections deployment.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Remove Navigation bar on bottom of ICEC Pages on Mobile

    If you are using ICEC on Mobile, there is always a grey navigation bar on the bottom of the page, which is taking up a lot of space. This navigation is not needed and should be removed.
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 3 Already Exists

    Improve logging options for 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. The task only logs w...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    No remote css, js or fonts from CDN or whereever

    After Community Catalog and Orient Me, now the admin panel loads css, fonts or js from external resources. See all avantages and concerns here: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1334 This is a security issue at most of our...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

    When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Increase the options for Notifications within Communities

    Directly from the customer: We'd like to recommend that we add more options for sending and receiving notifications. From the content creator perspective we'd like to have an option to send a notification when we create new content: post a blog, c...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

    I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting tas...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement
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