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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Add a Teams Chat to a ConNext (sub)community.

Assign / allocate a Teams Chat to a (sub) community to make it visible to a broader audience + create more transparency.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Publish an update in Connections and MS Teams simultaneously

It would be great if the user could publish updates across multiple channels at the same time, e.g. on Connections and MS Teams. The user would save time and energy if he had to create an update only once.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Update prerequisits of Python 2.7 for Docs

Docs Installer needs Python 2.7 which is eol since over an year now and this was already announced 6 years ago! When can we expect an update to an uptodate version of Python?
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 No Plans to Implement

Allow square logos for communities

There should be an option to disable the circle mask for community logos. Many logos are square and do not look well with cropped edges or scaled down to fit in the middle. Square bolts simply do not fit well into round holes ;-) A simple checkbo...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

TinyMCE to consider Active Content Filtering rules by Connections

Connections allows to customize Active Content Filter rules. By this, customers are able to adapt blacklist or whitelist to their needs. - Whitelist: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/secure/sec_acf_whitelist_intro.html - Blackl...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

TinyMCE "Code Sample .." in Forums

We noticed that the funcion "Code Sample .." in TinyMCE is missing for Forums when creating Forum Topics. We would appriciate to add this function also there.
over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

Searching for Numbers in Quickresults not working as expected

When searching for numbers in the quickresults sidebar, no documents are found in quick search. For example if a file name starts with numericals like 11604_test.doc, and if we search with 11604* for doc, it is not listed in the search icon. If th...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

Add change summary

It would be useful to have the possibility to add a change summary to a new version of a file after the version has been published in case the user forgot to add it while uploading. Should be only possible for the user who uploaded the new version.
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

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.hcltechsw....
almost 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

PDF Export Functionality with MS Teams/ICXT Integration

Add an additional "Save as File" option to allow downloading of the PDF directly instead of leveraging the browser's PDF viewer.
almost 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review
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