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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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Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

WAV Support

Currently you can not play wav files in connections. please integrate as soon as possible. This must be standard
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

MP3 Support

Please integrate support for mp3 files. Currently you can not embed mp3 files. Currently you can not play mp3 files in connections
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Assessment

Request for the ability to configure whether files display in pages or as a continuous list

Prior versions of Connections displayed files such that Total number of files displayed Individual pages were accessible via links Jumping to a specific page was possible In more recent versions, files display as a continuously scrolling list.Requ...
9 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Multiple helm charts use hardcoded ports for the service definition

When deploying multiple instances of the connections component pack on the same Kubernetes cluster in different namespaces, you find that several ports are hardcoded inside the helm charts. The provided helm charts must be modified by hand to chan...
over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

Refurbish Activities to compete with Microsoft o365 Planner

The user interface of Community Activities feels very outdated although it is a very powerful feature. I suggest to refurbish it in order to compete with Microsoft O365 planner (https://products.office.com/en-us/business/task-management-software) ...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

The possibility to insert emojis also in comments

Our users love the new Tiny Editor with the many new emojis. There was often the question why you can not add emojis to comments and also not in the Embedded View in the Comments. In principle, these can be displayed by inserting the emoji via cop...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

More Performance for ICEC

The Engagement Center is a fantastic solution if you also use connections as an intranet platform. Unfortunately, the widgets in icec load very slowly. The performance should be increased here.
almost 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

reinstate Elasticsearch Standalone support for Connections v7+

Customers are forced to setup Kubernetes envoirnments if they want to continue using Metrics & Quicksearch for Connections - v7 & v8 only support Kubernetes-Elasticsearch. For most small customers (<1500 users) Kubernetes deployment is ...
about 2 years ago in  0 Needs Review

Allow users to unfollow content using OrientMe Home Page

The "classic" activity stream features the option "Stop Following" in order to unfollow content (IBM Help : Stop following) and receiving updates about an item or person. Unfortunately, this can not be performed in OrientMe and I have to switch to...
over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration