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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    support for underscore inside bookmark URL

    At the moment URL containing _ (Underscore) in the domain name cannot be accepted as a bookmark in Connections. But there are several websites that do have underscores - e.g. HCL Notes and Domino wiki (https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com ) Supporting...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Integrate Etherpad to work together on Wiki drafts and export them to a Wiki article

    Connections is currently very limited in terms of shared work on a document. There's just docs, which require ODT files. Sadly we don't have many advantages of wikis here, mainly versions with diff. Etherpad https://etherpad.org/ is an open source...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    Modify date range of Status Update Search result

    It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
    almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Search in forum AND filter topics by "open questions" or "answered questions"

    Currently it is not possible to search in a forum AND filter the topics by 'open questions' or 'answered questions'. It would be great to add this possibility to the search (both by UI and URL)
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Open to-do lists when several people are assigned

    If a to-do is created and several people are assigned, this to-do remains in my "open task list" even if I have done my part. Is it possible to provide a real "open to-do" list with my open items only and filter out group to-dos that have been com...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Round profile pictures not consistent through all apps

    With IC5.5 the profile pictures are round instead of rectangular, but the new design is not consistent through all apps/components. Please make it consistent. E.g. on the business cards of people on the different apps/widgets on the My Page on the...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Mobile App: Allow Radiobuttons to be displayed

    Currently, Radiobuttons in Rich Contents or Wikis are not shown on a mobile device. On desktop, they are visible. Please also make radiobuttons visible on mobile devices.
    almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

    Offer choice of context for automatic tag suggestion

    When adding tags to a blog or wiki page, the automatic suggestions I get when I start typing in the field currently seem to be restricted to the context: I only get suggestions for tags that were already used in this blog or wiki. This can make se...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Preview of images not working with uppercase JPG extensions with Connections Desktop Plug-ins

    If an image file gets uploaded with uppercase file type extension (.JPG/.PNG) through Connections Desktop Plug-ins preview of images are not available.The issue was reported for the preview displayed in the activity stream. For example, if an user...
    about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer / 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Support for Outlook as Feed reader

    When using a feed and subscribing to it in MS Outlook, it is not possible to open the related page. View article does not work. It makes the usage of Outlook as Feed reader for Connections content useless.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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