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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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04. Profiles

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Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
about 8 hours ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

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...
4 days ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Link URL of Background and Contact Information Tab from Profiles redirects to Recent Updates when opened in another tab

When the URL of "Contact Information" and "Background" tab in profiles are copied and pasted in another browser tab, it redirects to "Recent Updates". The URLs of both Contact Information and Background tab should not redirect instead it should go...
7 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Passwort Reset Link One Time Use

Password Reset Link received in emails can be used more than once. Admins should be able to have control over this, and even enable a one time password reset link.
11 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

Change default timezone of a profile to GMT

When a new user is created and TDI does not change the timezone, the default is set to -12 (top of the list). Asian or Australian user have to scroll down the whole list, European about half. Why not defaulting to GMT, so the maximum scroll is abo...
over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

uid to show in Directory Search

Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

PROF_PREFERRED_FIRST_NAME entry to show everywhere in Connections Environment

Hi! We made a customization in our environment where we made an entry to have the nickname or the preferred name of our user to show in the connections. However, we just found out that it is only showing in Profiles and Business Card. What we are ...
almost 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration