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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    New Blog Features

    User would like to see, on either the right or left side of a blog, the titles of past blog post titles. Yes, he can click on themonths, but for an irregular post schedule, that's a lot of clicking to see the blog titles.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to add formatted URL in status update

    When posting on a forum or a blog entry, a full-text editor appears where you can insert (for instance) URL's, pictures and tables. When posting an update, there's no editor, so it's impossible to inserta link in the text. Users have to copy/paste...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    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

    People-migrate fails when admin password contains a % sign

    After preparing the migration tool, while running the migration service to populate the Orient Me page, People-migrate fails when admin password contains a % sign
    about 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    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

    "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

    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

    Can the Check box with "include inactive users" be hidden from the catalog search?

    Customer is looking for the option under Search the Directory under Directory >> Display full search options under user Profiles where you want to hide the Check Box option for "Include inactive users in search results".
    almost 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 No Plans to Implement

    Word Cloud in HCL Connections

    Hello, is it possible to implement an additional Word Cloud App to HCL Connections? This exist already in the Web (as example: https://www.wordclouds.com/) , but a direct implementation in HCL Connections would be helpful.
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Clarification
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