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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

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Modify date range of Status Update Search result

It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Offer choice of context for automatic tag suggestion

When adding tags to a blog or wiki page, the automatic suggestions I get when I start typing in the field currently seem to be restricted to the context: I only get suggestions for tags that were already used in this blog or wiki. This can make se...
about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Touchpoint Appreg entry should accept Match statement

Using match statement in Touchpoint Appreg entry to filter user, but the match statement will not be followed. The match statement is like below: "path": "touchpoint", "payload": { "match": { "user-email": [ "user@test.com" ] } } This is working a...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Numerical Characters Should be Translated When the Language is Changed

When a Connections user changes languages from English to a language such as Japanese or Arabic, the words get translated, but the numbers do not. For example, when looking at the Communities Members widget in the Overview page you see "View All (...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Enable TLS 1.3 scan support for applications

Support for TLS 1.3 should be added so that applications using TLS 1.3 can be scanned. Currently there is only support for up to 1.2 and we cannot connect to our application to perform dynamic scans.
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

New Design V8

In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

Let every app run on a rasperry pi, as promised

2017 Jason Roy Gary announced "The future is pink": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-Connections-6-Die-Zukunft-ist-Pink-3672015.html Where he promised that every component should run on a raspberry pi. Since java is avaliable for ARM, t...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement