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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Onboarding-Wizard during creating in Community

In my daily work i always have to explain, what kind of app in a community our customers should choose, when thy want to do something. So i always habe to explain " when you want to inform your Communitys and you have Content like files, some text...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Thumbnail not visible (actual mini images of uploaded files) for files (imgaes, pdf etc.), instead general mini image (of pdfs, jpeg) is visible

When you upload a file ( inside community Library ) general icon of PDF or JEPG is visible as thumbnail, it should be actual image of uploaded file. I've tested it on several environments like Connections 6 CR5,CR4 and on 5.5 versions also.
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

Allow max-width for inserted images to a Blog entry to be configurable via Blogs Administration

Image does not fit Blog width.Steps to reproduce the issue:1. On a Blogs' entry, click to add an image;2. Add any image (issue can be reproduced while adding image from the web and uploaded from PC imagine needs to be big more than 1000pixes wide)...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability to mail other external Community members from an external community member

When somebody sends an email to a community, the sender is the email address. If that person is an external user, the sender address is the external email address. When that external user sends a mail to other external members in the community....
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Support for Elasticsearch 6.x - Connections 6

Customer driven, uses Elastic 6 today.
almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Future Consideration

Dont show accepted answers twice in forum thread

When the creator of a forum thread marks a post as accepted answear, this post is shown twice: One time as accepted answear, and another time in the regular post flow. This is a waste of space and confusing for users. Also IT people, since most of...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Add extension point for mobile App to allow webtracking

There is no chance to track the usage of the mobille app. If you would create an extension point, so that an administrator could add some lines of javascript, we could embed a webtracker to track the mobile application.
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Allow every mobile view to be the startpage

You can add mobile extensions and set them as a default landingpage for the mobile app. But mobile extensions only allow HTTP/HTTPS URLs, so you can set only websites as landingpages. But if a want to set a special blog overview/entry as a default...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

General Integration of GroupChat services (MS Teams, Slack, Sametime, etc.)

When identifying an expert on Connections directly start a chat from the user profile and/or profile business card.
almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration

Provide version and release info in the Plugin catalog

When IBM moved the plugin catalog to Bluemix it removed any version and release info. You even can't figure out whether you've downloaded the current version already without having to download it and compare the files. Please repair this wherever ...
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Already Exists
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