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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    Add "change summary" to the media-updated newsletter

    We got a request from our customer to expand the media-updated newsletter with the field "change summary" you can optionally add when updating a file in Connections. So you directly know the reasons for updating the file without opening it.
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Search loading issue in Connections 6.5 - Files & Profiles

    Hello, Search is not working on the Connections 6.5 - Files and profiles. I've raised ticket and came to know that this is known issue in Files and Profiles. Kindly look into the issue.
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search should be clever and more fuzzy (especially with german words)

    When I search something in Connections the search is not fuzzy and clever enough to consider e.g. the singular and plural form of a word. E.g. when we search for "startmoment" it gives different results than when we search for "startmomente" (the ...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    request to support certified Kubernetes versions

    Please support Kubernetes deployments of a certified CNCF Kubernetes partner. It should be possible that customers can update to one of the last supported versions from CNCF.Please improve the product and support as many platforms as possible.
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Already Exists

    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

    Automatic Synnchronization for Supplement user data for Profiles

    The Department table should be updated automatically without a manual process via CSV file, for this as per below article https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/install/r_prof_fill-tables.html?query=populate_department
    about 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Let Files Widgets Open Links In Same Tab

    Files and Files Explorer widgets currently have links with target="_blank". As a result, if the user clicks on a filename, the browser opens a new tab, redirectes the user to the community holding the file and then opens the Docs Viewer. That take...
    about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Already Exists

    Clear "View Sync issues" Box

    In Desktop Plugin "View Sync issues" Box , please allow customer to remove manually or automatically conflicts solved.
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 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
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