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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    How does Connections decide if the Redis traffic should be sent directly or through the tunnel?

    Right now Connections has no implementations, but there is an ongoing development to Provide a configuration option that will allow customers to run all component pack traffic through TLS Implement TLS Enforcement for Component Pack Integratio...
    5 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Passwort Reset Link One Time Use

    Password Reset Link received in emails can be used more than once. Admins should be able to have control over this, and even enable a one time password reset link.
    over 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Blog Link Field in My Profile requires specific formatting not listed in our documentation

    Customer would like some guide or restriction to what the correct formatting and expected entry is for the Blog Link in My Profile for future releases. We were able to test a workaround and added the prefix of the URL with just www. , it seems aft...
    6 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Add setting to not show sub Communities in My Communities

    Please allow a server setting to filter out sub communities from hte My Community list. For some users this is confusing depending how they work with Communities and sub communities. Having a server wide settings would be beneficial
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    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.
    almost 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    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 ...
    almost 3 years ago in  0 Needs Review

    Introduce an adjustable image quality feature, offering users the flexibility to upload pictures in low, medium, or high quality.

    Users face challenges with fixed image quality settings leading to storage issues, necessitating the time-consuming task of managing storage by deleting or replacing images, disrupting workflow. Implementing an adjustable image quality feature, al...
    almost 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    TLS 1.3 Support for Connections Blue, Pink and Docs

    Support for TLS 1.3 should be added to the complete Connections stack There are already recommendations to disable TLS 1.0 and customers already disabled TLS 1.0 on their servers. Seucurity recommendations currently tend towrds only supporting/rec...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Improved navigation for Wikis on mobile devices

    This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. There are a number of usability improvements needed for wikis with page hierarchies on mobile devices. These all could potentially be resolved if pr...
    about 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review
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