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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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Option to create and edit diagrams in Wikis, Blogs and Forums

Adding diagrams to Blog posts and Wiki documents as living objects (edit and change directly from the Connections editor) would extend the possibilities of working together on text and diagrams without the need of installed software and export thi...
about 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

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 ...
almost 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
almost 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
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Assessment

Ability to cancel out of More selection on iOS

If you click the "More" option on bottom right of iOS app, you can't undo the choice. You're forced to make a new selection. It would be better to be able to cancel out of the menu to go back to where you were. Otherwise, you lose context. Recomme...
about 1 year ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

Improved handling of community wiki search results on mobile

This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. Search results should be presented in a more clear manner for community wiki results. Usability Issue 1 - Search result shows "Community Wiki" inste...
about 1 year ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
about 1 year ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

Move Blogs configuration properties to config file or gatekeeper

Currently, many of the settings for blogs are in a settings file in the ear file. On every Cfix and or upgrade, this get's overwritten. Please move them to gatekeeper or LC_Config folder. Connections is hard enough to maintain as it is, having to ...
almost 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 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...
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Multi file delete should be possible for files using the web frontend

Currently files have to be deleted one by one from the files widget of a community. Offering delete functionality for multi select files analogous to multi select download using the web frontend of Connections would be helpful to organize files an...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration