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

Change default icon for application in Highlights

Please add a way to customize how the application widget icons. There is a parameter in widgets-config.xml, but it does not help change the icon for application in Highlights. example of script: <widgetDef defId="label.customization.comm...
over 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

Giphy / GIF support for every app as well as within the Connections editor

Please make an implementation of Giphy (https://giphy.com/) and include a GIF feature in the Connections editor like other tools as Slack or Microsoft Teams or Twitter are already support today! The current emoticons which are provided within Co...
over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

Connections to support reading *.eml files

When drag and drop mails from Notes mail by Connections files plug-in, to files/folders/Communities, you can not read the file in browser. You can download it and trying to read it, but you need Outlook installed on your PC. No one has Outlook ins...
over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

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) ...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

Improve how the comment title is shown embedded experience

When a user comments in a status update and it is opened in the Embedded Experience in Connections homepage, the comment title gets truncated.
over 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

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.
over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

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...
about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration
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