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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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MP3 Support

Please integrate support for mp3 files. Currently you can not embed mp3 files. Currently you can not play mp3 files in connections
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Assessment

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 ...
about 2 years ago in  0 Needs Review

Multiple helm charts use hardcoded ports for the service definition

When deploying multiple instances of the connections component pack on the same Kubernetes cluster in different namespaces, you find that several ports are hardcoded inside the helm charts. The provided helm charts must be modified by hand to chan...
over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 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

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The user interface of Community Activities feels very outdated although it is a very powerful feature.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

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.
almost 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...
over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future 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...
over 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 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

Keep community logo at original resolution

The image uploaded as a community logo gets resized to fit in 110x110 square. Requesting alternate handling to maintain original resolution
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review