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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Consider EXIF orientation data in uploaded photos

Photos taken using the photo app on mobile devices typically contain the orientation as EXIF data. The photo is not saved in the expected orientation by the photo app. Instead, the software has to read and consider the EXIF data to display the pho...
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Shipped

Consistent experience for insert image dialog across blog/wiki/forum

When user inserts an image in different apps, for example blog, wiki, forum, activity, the user experience is not consistent.
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Shipped

Editor Issue: Copy/ paste of images directly from clipboard does not work

This was working before. This feature was broken twice in 3 years. Please ensure for all editors and all browsers (e.g. Chrome) and for all applications (wiki,forum,blog...) that it is possible to copy/paste images directly from the clipboard (wit...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Shipped

Separate Scroll bar for Wiki page list

I wish the ability to have a separate scroll bar on the list of pages in a wiki existed. We have long lists of pages and if you go to the bottom and click on one of these, the content often on one of these pages is not as long as the list of pages...
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Shipped

Improve people picker for @mentions on mobile

Please redesign UX of people picker which causes a screen region to become blank and later the suggested people names appear in middle of nowhere. This is weird. For example in Forums the posted text even disappears temporarily which implies a kin...
over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Shipped

make the process of inviting outsiders easier

the difficulty of inviting more people to the communities is overwhelming. I tried importing a csv, but the formats are not easy. including one-to-one contacts is also not a viable option when there are more than 50. By email was the form found, h...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Shipped

Support CRI runtimes for Kubernetes

Kubernetes deprecated Docker runtime support with 1.20 and will probably drop it with 1.22 in late 2021. See: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/ For large systems like Connections that is not much time. As Dock...
almost 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Shipped

"Transfer Ownership" in Desktop PlugIns - Windows Explorer

The Desktop PlugIns provide the option to work with files (sharing, locking, syncing) within Windows Explorer. The function to transfer ownership for files is missing in there. Please add this for single and multiple files. Please also see here, s...
over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Shipped

Disable the "rank my content higher" option while using the search functionality on homepage in connections 6.5 CR1

We would like to have "rank my content higher" disabled (checkbox deselected) by default, so that a user has to enable it manually if it should be used.
about 5 years ago in  1 Shipped

Clicking icon in Community List should work as "Open in a new tab"

I want to open multiple communities from Community List as attached image in new tabs. Currently clicking a icon takes you to the community, and list is gone. Right-Click to open in a new tab is not enabled on the list page. It is too annoying! Ar...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Shipped
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