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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    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

    Tool for administrators to quickly and easily make Connections profiles changes for users

    Security policy denies users access to change their personal information in Connections Cloud Profiles. To update their information, they have been using the Integration Server solution which they find quite hard to handle. Even minor changes like...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 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

    Delete the current search history in the app

    Give the users the opportunity to delete their current search history in the HCL Connections app. This helps if the overview is no longer given by the search results.
    over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 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

    ICXT - Problems with PDF Export in Wiki page

    Customer is looking for improvements for PDF export that causing an error if the image attached on a Wiki Environment: ICXT Version: v4.2.3 Scenario: PDF export causing an error if the image attached on a wiki is linked manually.
    almost 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    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

    pasting HTML format from clipboard removes attributes in Forum Rich Text Editor (TinyMCE)

    When pasting from clipboard rich text format HTML Code, formating such as "<p style="text-align: center" gets removed. by TinyMCE. This worked in the past but in HCL Connections 6.5 CR1 it does not work anymore.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration
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