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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    Resend community email in the event of SMTP error

    According to RFC 821 4.2.2/4.3 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821#section-1), when a successfull connection is opened between client and server but an SMTP service is unavailable, the server responds with a "421 Service unavailable" response inst...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Web document open methods

    There are 3 different methods to open an object - 1.) click on the icon - file is opened read-only, 2.) click on the link - file is opened in read-write mode, 3.) click on download button - file is downloaded with no Connections menu items in Word...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Tagging not possible in all components

    The tagging cloud is available in community for some components (Blog, Wiki, Bookmarks, Ideation Blog, Forum, Feeds) but is missing for other components (Activities, Media gallery)
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Recommendation for similar content for all components

    I would like to have the recommendation/ suggestion for similar content for all coomponents/ content. As of today, the recommendation for similar content is only available for Blogs/ Ideation Blog. This should be there for all componets and all in...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Ease tagging of profiles

    Would be great to ease profile tagging by just clicking the tag instead of typing it ("Add tag(s) to this profile")
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Display and visualize what information is new to you personally

    It would to nice to see immediately what information is new to you personally. E.g.: Display all topics you have already clicked on in another style or color than non-read/ new topics (like emails in Outlook which are bold=unread and normal=read)....
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Non-Members should be able to like or comment on community content

    It should be possible to configure for an IC environment - to make it configurable to have consistent behaviour between moderated and public communities, so that non-members can like and comment on community activity content. The inconsistent beha...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    tag type-ahead for Files be expanded to include public Community Files tags as well as Files tags

    Two days ago I uploaded and tagged a file into a community. In another community I wanted to upload and tag another file with the same tag, but the system is not suggesting the tag I added two days ago. This is a design limitation, only tags added...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    ENHANCEMENT: PERSONAL GROUPS DO NOT SYNCHRONIZE TO THE DEVICE CO NTACTS APPLICATION.

    This was raised in 2014 - has there been any progress on this since then?
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    More informative message and ability to grant permission when trying to share from Photos on Android

    If you try to share an item from Photos on Android, and if you haven't yet granted permission to the Connections Mobile app to access photographs on the device, you will be prompted with the following message: "You do not have permission to access...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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