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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    Ability to configure connections so thay highlighted elements (blog entry url links) can be empty or removed completely.

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    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Add "Open in App" button when a page is viewed on a mobile browser (Connections OnPrem)

    A user hits a link that renders a connections page. When that page comes from Connections Cloud, it's an universal link and the mobile app will be launched. Universal links are "cloud only" and cannot be used in onPrem installs. Idea: Why not gene...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Rich text editor for surveys

    A rich text editor (like in other apps) would be also useful in the app "surveys" e.g. to insert links, pictures and more.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Notify the community owner when member add/leave the community.

    Function request to send notification to the community owner when the member add/leave the community.Community owner would like to know the change of community member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Apache Server as the Web Server

    Customer would like Apache server to be be supported with HCL Connections. Currently only IBM IHS is officially supported.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Highlights templates - add ability to recover prior display after disabling template

    If you apply a template to Highlights, you cannot undo and revert to your prior display. You instead need to undo the template relationship, and then reformat Highlights to match the prior display. Seeking the ability to capture the original displ...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Highlights templates - request for warning message before applying template

    You can apply a template to Highlights, but there is not an undo option. Requesting that a warning message display indicating that the selection cannot be undone.
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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