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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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Improved handling of community wiki search results on mobile

This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. Search results should be presented in a more clear manner for community wiki results. Usability Issue 1 - Search result shows "Community Wiki" inste...
over 1 year ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
over 1 year ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
almost 3 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

ICXT - PDF export of tables to handle Landscape format

ICXT could only handle "Portrait" format, and no Landscape. This is because HCXT leverages open source tool wkhtmltopdf for PDF exporting. The wkhtmltopdf tool exports html content to portrait orientation by default. The idea for this new idea is ...
over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Connections v8.0 reposition or eliminate tags widget in Community Wikis

In the v8.0 UI, stand-alone and community Wikis have 3 column layout, table of contents (left), Wiki body (center), and widgets, i.e. Tags (right). In prior versions, the widgets were under the table of contents on the left side. This allows for t...
about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Modernizing the Calendar (Event) Widget

User Interface (UI) Design: Consider a clean, intuitive, and responsive design. Bootstrap, Material Design, or other modern UI frameworks can be helpful. Event Display: Use a modern card-based layout or a timeline view for events to enhance user e...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Enable/Allow AVIF Format

Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
6 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review