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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    [ConnX MT] Need to have the ability to customize Metrics UI

    Currently, Metrics UI can't be customized as its in written in hardcode. For example, if Connections deployed with features (such as Activities) disabled. It doesn't make sense if Metrics UI still display any column of Activities. Thus, it is need...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Security Issue w/ HCL Connections Component Managed Alias

    Per the customer: Specification of component-managed aliases on JAVA EE resources is prohibited. Currently this is a requirement and the customer's policy states: "Any Java EE application that runs within the cell can potentially access any Java...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Blogs, Wikis and Files view counter increase on page reload

    The view counters in blogs, wikis, and files can be increased by any user by just reloading the page/entry/file multiple times. There is no check on cookie or session ID. In blogs there is a config option that the original author is not counted in...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Enhance Activities

    There is an opportunity to turn Activities into a more powerful project/task management tool: - add optional starting date for todos so they have a duration - add optional links between tasks (depends-on, conflicts-with,...) - add optional priorit...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    in some cases loses customizer styling

    We have a corporate identity design on Connections and modify the IBM Connections user experience by injecting resources in the pages that are returned to users using the Customizer. The issue could be reproduced on Blogs pages, specifically when ...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    HCL Connections Touchpoint - "de-at", "de-de", and Other German "Localized" Language

    Touchpoint Application/Page, does not accept "localized" language codes. Every time a browser sends the language code like "de-de", "de-at", or similar, the Touchpoint Application loads in English, which is defined as default in "toucpoint.js".
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Formatting comments in the ideation blog

    Function for formatting comments in the ideation blog. Similar to writing an idea, fomatization and moderation options could help to write comments or give feedback. Besides, adding images in the comment section would help.
    about 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Old table of contents

    ​Previously there was the possibility, in the wiki, to create an table of contents by button and to updateI would like this functionality again. Now I have to create a table of contents via macro (Table of Contents) that can be updated. I have to ...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to use a target in iFrame

    ​In a iFrame the "a" targets "_top" and "_parent" dont work. We need it because our Wiki has an iFrame to an HTML Site on an Sharepoint. Solution: Adding "allow-top-navigation" to "sandbox" in iFrames.
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    TinyMCE - clear text formatting when applying Heading so default Heading formatting applies

    Requesting the ability to choose whether applying a Heading formatting clears prior text formatting selections so that the text is treated in the default manner. This can be via a config or via a pop-up option. Right now, applying a Heading format...
    over 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review
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