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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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Forum upload should fail right away if the size exceeds the configured limit

Attaching a size limit-exceeding file to a forum topic or reply takes time to fail. It would be better for the UI to recognize that the file exceeds the limit and fail immediately. Instead, end users need to wait and will eventually see an appropr...
about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

Full Interoperability between Connections Events and Outlook Meeting

Currently ConNext events can only be imported via ics or copy from feed in one's Outlook Calendar. Both have the drawback that you don't get informed in case of update of the original event. Moreover you might forget to set a reminder. Also import...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Check for broken links in Wiki pages

It is very common situation that hyperlinks are broken in Wiki pages, i.e. they point to non-existing resources resulting in 404 errors. It would be great to have automatic way to check for broken links in Wiki pages and report them to Community o...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

supply more detailed fix lists for Desktop and Notes plugin

There are new plugins available for Notes and MS Desktop but unfortunately the Release Notes do not specify which fixes are contained. Can you please provide more details to allow a better decision if an upgrade is required. Desktop Plugin https:/...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

Ability to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files'

We want to have the option to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files' if they wanted to as they are not currently using the functionality and it appears to be causing confusion for their users.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 3 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 ...
over 1 year ago in  0 Needs Review

The "Tag" widget should default to condensed mode

In Connections 8, The "Tag" widget will by default shown in expand mode, but this take sup usefeul space , which forces the user to scroll to see the contents of a page.
7 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Share a file with expiry date.

Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Have profile pictures show up in newsletters without the need of changing the security role for profiles app

When enabling the new newsletter template, which is available since CR4, the profile pictures are not shown on the received newsletters. After setting the profiles app security role "Readers" from "All Authenticated in Application's Realm” to "Eve...
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Under Consideration