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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...
over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

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

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

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 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 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The user interface of Community Activities feels very outdated although it is a very powerful feature.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) ...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
over 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 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...
over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

Preview files on mobile

Currently the mobile app downloads full file in order to render its preview. This is time consuming and megabytes of data are transfered unnecessarily. The generated preview is even not cached so you have to download the full file over and over if...
over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Under Consideration

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

LEAP Integration in HCL Connections V8 - Access Rights

Good day, With V8 it is possible to integrate apps into communities via HCL Leap using iFrame widgets. Unfortunately there is a problem with this. If you want to share the app only with a specific community, you can only select individual users o...
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review