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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    prevent Elasticsearch custom date view by field from switching values based on date ranges

    Currently when viewing metrics reports, when selecting Custom dates, the view by field will automatically switch to week if the date range you select is 14 days or more. This occurs even if you initially select View by to a value of "day". Reprodu...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Clarification

    Introduce the ability to restrict the use of certain search keywords for searching Connections

    Introduce an option/configurable method for administrators to specify a list of restricted keyword strings that users are not permitted to use to search Connections content. Similar to the blacklisting of certain search keywords in the environment.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    The possibility to add a new Tab in the Profile Edit Mode

    There is currently no HCL documentation that describes how to create a new tab in the Profile Editor view where you can find the desired profile extensions. Example: Tab Contact Information and a new Custom Edit Tab --> IT Information
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Method for performing silent installation of Community surveys

    This is a request to introduce the ability to install Community surveys in silent mode using a response file. Currently this is not available. You cannot even run the installation in console mode, you will receive an error indicating: "Error: The ...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Restrict the Community Surveys creation

    Customer would like to have the ability to restrict the Community Surveys creation by Admin users
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    "Forum application default view" does not work function as expected

    Under Community Actions > Edit Community > Forums you have the following settings: Communities overview page > Show topic list by default Forum application default view > Show forum list by default From the Overview page if you click o...
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    When clicking on a document in the activity stream unable to open in a new tab

    The communities when opened in a new tab open properly. The activity stream document links when opened in a new tab does not open and shows about:block page. This only works on the Files component.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Exclude Filter for tags

    When filtering by tag in the tag cloud I would like the possibility to select tags to be excluded from the results. Main use case in mind is for example to exclude entries tagged with foreign language e.g. 'lang_de' to only display topics I can re...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Forum: Default Option: Mark this topic as a question

    It would be nice, if there would be an option to set in an forum "Mark this topic as a question" for all new creates topics / questions.
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement
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