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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    Hide input fields for readers

    Readers in a community have the ability to write a comment or a micro-blog entry. But they can not publish/save it. So why is their the possibility to use the input field. For a greater user experience these fields should be hidden in correlation ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    RTE in status update (post text field)

    Currently the status won't accept rich text (that include formating, pictures, etc).
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    New Design V8

    In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

    An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the us...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

    Additional Metrics Options

    To have additional metrics options to be able to pull from Connections Cloud such as number of people who have downloaded the pronounciation file, be able to look into who has accessed what or what people visit e.g xxxx community to look at trends...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Display announcement on all pages of the platform

    No description provided
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

    The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

    Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Use a reasonably up-to-date python version in the WebSphere app server

    I noticed strange behavior in my python scripts for wsadmin: It was not possible to assign boolean variables. A research showed that our stack uses an extremly old version of python: WebSphere\bin>wsadmin.bat -lang jython -username user -passwo...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Important To Me bar (ITM) in Orient Me (OM) should allow pretty bubbles (with images) that can filter for event generators

    When pushing events to the activity stream of people or communities, it gets important to be able to filter events by their generator (like "all salesforce events", "all SAP events" etc.). This is possible using the app registry by using the ITM...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration
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