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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    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Improve the copy process with ICXT

    ICXT is not consistent with how it copies content: Blog: If I copy a blog post from one community to another then ICXT wants to move the profile of the owner of the post too. This is needed to make sure the owner is the same in the new community. ...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

    Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Approval Process for Wiki's

    Idea behind use the Wikipedia as a knowledge management system. This is a very important task which would us help to bring our internal guide lines into a Wikipedia in ConNext. So different editors can work on the improvement of our knowledge and ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    SVG not recognized as image in Blog

    Behaviour:When a SVG file is stored under BLOG/resouce/ or BLOG/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/, the SVG file is not displayed as image. A SVG file is stored under other location, the SVG file is displayed on the blog. How to reproduce: Save a SVG...
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Pasting a Wiki URL into textbox.io is resolving the URL name as "Welcome to Wikis" instead of Wiki title.

    Using ephox 3.5.1.14 and 3.7.0.10 there is an issue with pasting wiki link into the textbox.io. If you copy any Wiki URL and paste it into textbox.io it will automatically turn into "Welcome to Wikis". Which is misleading. Instead of "welcome..." ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Trash feature in Blogs

    There is currently no built in mechanism to recover accidentally deleted data in Blogs. This request is for a trash feature where end users would be able to restore their own content. A possible implementation could also include purging content af...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow Microsoft file round tripping from Connections interface

    When a user finds an Office file from the Connections interface (either through files or communities) and then downloads that document from Connections and edits it in Office, he has to save it to his desktop and then "upload a new version". If th...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Already Exists

    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Provide Docs templates to start with

    please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement
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