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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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Automatic scaling of the profile pictures

When uploading the profile images in large resolution, these are scaled down by ibm connections directly into the correct resolution.
about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

Allow Touchpoint to be customized the default Connections way

To customize Touchpoint, files need to be changed directly in touchpoint.war directory on each node. This is not be the way to go, as Touchpoint now (as of Connections 6.5) is part of the default deployment. And customizations there probably get o...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

Pasting of URL which contains tags as search results redirects users to the user profiles

After doing "All Content" search from the user profile and copied the URL of this, then share it to another user, the other user will be redirected to the user profile page instead of the search results page. This also happens when you clear brows...
6 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

TLS 1.3 Support for Connections Blue, Pink and Docs

Support for TLS 1.3 should be added to the complete Connections stack There are already recommendations to disable TLS 1.0 and customers already disabled TLS 1.0 on their servers. Seucurity recommendations currently tend towrds only supporting/rec...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

ICXT Newer version release update/information

At present we don't have a portal or way from where we can know the latest version of ICXT release. We like to get an update on flexnet, mail, rss feed or something like that when a new version is available, will be a great work.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Allow direct download of desktop plug-in (not via Flexnet)

Nowadays users can download desktop plug-ins only via HCL Flexnet - which nobody manages to do so. Even many adminisrators have troubles to download files from Flexnet and update download links in Connections (My Drive page) regularly. Therefore u...
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

support for TinyMCE Editor Image Tools Plugin for HCL Connections 6.x

We enabled a Image Tools plugin for TinyMCE in the richtext-editor of our environment. In the blogs-application everything is working fine. For wiki it is saving or rather displaying the not edited form of the image. For example: I am editing a...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Support Notify for all content types

All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cre...
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration