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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    Add an easy way to add Volt apps to communities

    Volt apps could be created by community members and added to the community to increase the value of both systems. Volt apps could then "inherit" the community members (with owner/author/reader status) to control access (for the stages).
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Provide option to request access to restricted content

    Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name, no additional metadata such as the community it belongs to.I definitely see the value in having the additional data since some content may be app...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Change Community access after creation - Allow people from outside of my organization to become members of this community

    Would save time and effort if you can change access to an existing Community to allow external users access.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Implement generative AI within Connections

    Implement generative AI features within Connections to help produce, organize, and manage content (end user perspective), and/or manage the system (administrator perspective).
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Show all my liked content

    I want to have the possibility to see all content that I liked/recommended somewhere in Connections. For the blogs component this already exists here: https://.../blogs/roller-ui/favorites I want to have a view like this for all my likes (blogs, f...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Files section cursor

    In the "Files" section, when moving the cursor over "All Community Files" instead of turning into a pointer as it does with "Community Folders", it becomes a text cursor (bracket). Same for "Trash". While not impossible to use, users who are not f...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    Multiple Calendars for Communities

    Hello, I believe it´s not already possible to have multiple calendars within a Connections community. If there is a way, could you please provide me an answer to how? and if not, I believe it would be a good addition.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

    There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Pass my language selection to Knowledge Center

    In Account Settings, I can set a language preference for Connections Social Cloud. When I launch the Help, however, the Knowledge Center appears in English every time, and I have to switch to my preferred language for Knowledge Center. Users of no...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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