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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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Mouse over URL Links should display Page Previews in small popups

There should be a simple option to use "Page Previews" when hovering over URL Links, just like in Wikipedia. When a Wiki/Blog reader hovers with their mouse over a URL Link, a small popup should display a content preview of the linked content. A...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Fix "Following Concept" in case of folder shared with a community

Scenario. A Folder is shared with a community and the community is "owner" of this folder. This is not a community folder but it is owned by the community and visible within the community. If a user follows this community, the user is notified a...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

personalized serial email

over hcl notes by using a excel or csv file with httl ode rtf output
over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Support MS SQL for surveys

As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Better print of forums

Nowadays, forum threads or individual posts can be hardly printed because all the clutter around the posted content. Please add some print button or perhaps support media:print everywhere via CSS
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

Ability to share a personal wiki with a community

Currently a personal wiki can only be shared with other person. Some wikis are important for several communities, so it would be very usefull to be able to share with communities.
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

Hide input fields for readers

Readers in a community have the ability to write a comment or a micro-blog entry. But they can not publish/save it. So why is their the possibility to use the input field. For a greater user experience these fields should be hidden in correlation ...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Turn off document download

It would be helpful to have an option to turn off the document download option to prevent users from maintaining copies of documents outside of the intended Files location.
about 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

ODBC access to community stored files

currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement