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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Request for Support from Oracle 18c for Connections

Customer requests support of Oracle 18c with Connections 5.5 and 6.0 as we plan to migrated from Oracle 12c to Oracle 18c.
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 3 No Plans to Implement

Easy tagging people by clicking on existing tags

I can see which tags are assigned to a profile. If I want to contribute also and emphasize on an existing tag, I need to write it or copy it. My idea is to have the possibility to click on the tag itself and with that action I added it to the prof...
over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Enable OAuth for Connections Desktop Plugin (onPrem)

(we should have a category "Desktop Plugin" for ideas) The Connections Desktop Plugin authenticates "separately" with the connections server. OAuth is already supported by Connections mobile both in on-prem and cloud scenarios. This is similarly...
over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Replace status updates with sametime chat

Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Possibility to change the order of existent subcommunities

It would be great to be able to change the order of appearence of the subcommunities inside the "Subcommunities" widget / on the Subcommunities list on the left side of the parent community. sortable by creation date, amount of members, alphabetic...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Automatic tagging based on templates

Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Consistent Emoticon support

I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration
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