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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01. General/Multiple Areas

    Support for http/2 in IBM Connections

    Since Ibm application server 8.5+ supports http/2 and Http/2 brings many new improvements over http it would be a great feature if Connections would add support for http/2 in Connections. https://developer.ibm.com/articles/wa-http2-under-the-hood/
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

    The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

    Enhance dialog for invited guest

    Guests outside of company can be invited. Once they accept the invitation a dialog appears with some information to fill - like password. We want to extend this dialog by a phone number (or other LDAP fields) - which is mandatory for some companie...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

    We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

    Embedding File Preview

    I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Support Rich HTML (& CSS) for Activity Streams

    REQUEST: Support a richer set of HTML & CSS for Activity Streams to be at par competitively. For example, products like HipChat and Slack and other activity stream type apps support this. JUSTIFICATION: Perception and eye-candy is core and val...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Support Request for Oracle 19c for HCL Connections

    Customer requests support of Oracle 19c with Connections 6.5 and 7.0 as he plans to migrated to Oracle 19c (12.2.0.3). Oracle 18c will end of support by Jun 30, 2021. and Oracle 19c (successor to 12.2.0.x) is the current Long-Term-Support release:...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Under Consideration

    Improve search results view

    Improve the search results view, so that you can clearly see which document/activity/etc... belongs to which community as described in the uploaded screenshot.
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Allow advanced image propertys like borders, css and similar in TinyMCE

    The old CKEditor wasn't really awesome as TinyMCE, but it has a few features that were missing in the new one. We miss the ability of right clicking on a image and add certain propertys like adding a border, apply custom css and similar ones. Tiny...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add hyperlink/link in HCL Connections logo in CNX8

    With the new Connections 8.0 update, some of the customizations are not working anymore. One of this is adding a hyperlink to the Connections logo. We would like to request this to be added in the future releases of Connecitons 8.0 via customizer ...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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