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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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Fix CNAME violation of DNS specification

Multiple friends and colleges can't reach the idea lab, because you CNAME record violates the DNS specifications: $ dig connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.4-Ubuntu <<>> connections-ideas.hcltechs...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

Can't toggle/save advanced code editor plugin changes

Another copy of an already reported bug, which the HCL support doesn't accept as bug: I enabled the advanced code editor plugin https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/advcode/ to have syntax highlighting in the editors html code and default fuctions...
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Fix second scroll bar created in wiki pages

Since HCL doesn't consider this as bug for whatever reason, I just copied it here in the hope they'll at least care more on this platform: We noticed that Wiki pages after a certain length got a second scrollbar on the right side (see screenshot ...
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Needs Clarification

Error message shown every few minutes in IBM Connections-Desktop-Plug-ins for Windows

In remote sites (e.g. VPN) we have this issue: We were able to configure the plug-in and it works fine, but every few minutes a popup is shown with the error "IBM Connections Server for lappnet sync is currently unavailable". - The notification...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
over 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Get rid of iFrame widgets for consistent customization support

In the right sidebar on the homepage are multiple widgets. Most of them are well embedded so that we can customize their styling. But some are just iframes. Those iframes have their own styles and it's not documented how to customize them, so we'r...
over 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

Allow advanced image propertys like borders, css and similar in TinyMCE

The old CKEditor wasn't really awesome as TinyMCE, but it has a few features that were missing in the new one. We miss the ability of right clicking on a image and add certain propertys like adding a border, apply custom css and similar ones. Tin...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Improve general performance of the connections web application

Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the ent...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Speed up capturing of content

Example: Imagine you want to update an activity with a picture of a flip chart. You want to add it as a comment or in the description. In the moment you're only able to add it as a file and link it - a very inconvinient and slow way to do it. Thi...
over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Enhancements to the Community Email functionality

On behalf the customer, I am creating this Enhancements to the community email functionality: * community to store an email from an external source * the email address for the community page * send an email that is saved in a forum * email to be ...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement