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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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Microsoft Office shows UUID instead of folder names at the overview with recently opened files

If I open for example Microsoft Word and want to open a recently used file it shows only the UUID of the folder instead of the name. This is very confusing since we have often the case that a file has the same name but is from different communitie...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Fix JS errors from external users invite system

A vanilla CNX 6.5 installation throws JS errors: XML Parsing Error: not well-formedLocation: https://cnx65.internal/selfservice/acl/inviteLine Number 1, Column 1: The mentioned url returns the following JSON: {"access":false} So something is wr...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Automatic Synnchronization for Supplement user data for Profiles

The Department table should be updated automatically without a manual process via CSV file, for this as per below article https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/install/r_prof_fill-tables.html?query=populate_department
over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Admin feature to collect and search all access log - especially when and who accessed what Connections contents.

I think that all access log is written in Metics DB.Please provide a SQL tool to export access log from Metrics DB by specifying the start date and end date as parameters.
over 4 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

Communities with names that contain @ sign are not ranked properly in search results

A '@' special character is causing the community name to be searched as two terms. E.g. a name like XY@AB-CD is not found as a whole. The sign @ avoids that the whole phrase can be found (e.g. “XY@AB-CD”) or in a good ranking (result page 10 or mo...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Wikis does not show images if IHS disk cache is enabled.

Wikis does not show images if IHS disk cache is enabled which is introduced in the performance tuning guide. By reloading page, the images become visible, but they become invisible again by reloading. The customer is requesting us to update ...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

New API to retrieve microblogs

Customer would like to retrieve microblog entries of a given user, but only those created by the actual user. The API call that currently gets closer to what customer needs is this: Considering UserA the user passed in the URL, and UserB as anothe...
about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

Support for Forms based authentication for iCal feed in SiteMinder protected deployment

For SiteMinder protected environments, the iCal feed at /communities/calendar/ical requires Basic Authentication. This request is for adding support for Forms based authentication for this resource.
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Feature to remove specific nodes under "HCL Connections" in Windows Explorer

According to https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connectors/enduser/r_files_prefs_and_policies_windows.html it is possible to configure the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins via registry entries and disable, for example Activities functionali...
about 4 hours ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
3 days ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review