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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    Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

    When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    HTML/css code instead of text/content shown when wiki pages events are shown in Recent Updates

    Wikis does not send all appropriate HTML information to the Activity Stream for rendering HTML there. Also, the Activity Stream severely limits HTML rendering in AS posts for security 1) create a wiki page within a community 2) add some HTML and C...
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 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

    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

    Customer want to disable password expiration for specific users with Connections Cloud account.

    Currently, password expiration is applied to all users. Among them, we want to disable setting for only specific users. By default, passwords do not expire. Enforcing a password expiration period helps ensure that passwords are changed frequently....
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Restore Communities; Activities and Files without an end user operation

    Restore Communities, Activities and Files without an end user operation. Could you consider this?
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Already Exists

    Implement a traffic light labelling system in order to prioritize new content at first sight

    In a very dynamic company environment with ever-changing internal communication, the amount of new information for some employees is hard to grasp all at once on a daily basis. Some content is absolutely crucial for business operations whereas som...
    almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 No Plans to Implement

    Find inactive (= unused) communities

    As an admin of the system there should be also the option not only do filter and find communities (via CAT tool or wsadmin commands) which are inactive in case of the last timestamp of the updated/edited date property (e.g. community has been upda...
    about 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review
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