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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    Make the engagement center and Tiny Editors part of the standard Connections that installs with everything else.

    There are too many add-ons and third party tools making connections difficult to install, update, and migrate. Please consolidate all pieces owned my HCL in order to make the administration and maintenance less difficult.
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Fix 'Recently Visited' Community Filter

    The 'Recently Visited' Filter in My Communities seems not to work properly. Instead of the Communities I have visited recently, it shows the ones who hve been updated recently just as the 'Recently Updated' Filter does. It would be nice to see tha...
    about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Already Exists

    Automatically Removing disengaged memebers from a community

    Is there a way to identify and remove automatically members of a community who are non active, meaning not visiting or updating the community for a given time frame?
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Customize Community Mail Footer Links Using Variables

    While the links in the footer of community notifications can be customized using literal URLs in the associated FTL file, it would be nice to be able to use variables. Using a variable would allow for URL changes within the environment without hav...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Add more Emojis to the Palette

    Please integrate more Emojis or give the admins the possibility to extend the Emojis palette.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Make Community Surveys Searchable

    I'm requesting that in a future release community surveys are indexed and searchable.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Different options for community members and temporary access

    we´re doing really good in establishing our Community "ACME". We are missing two Options there: 1. As we have also a wiki and Trainings page within the community, we would like to have restrictions on the Access for read/ write. Part of the commun...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Restrict access to members of a community for a pre-defined time

    We use communities in which we share confidential data with user outside our own domain. In most cases we want to restricted the access to this data by our guest for a limited time.We like to have an enhancement in the system so that we can define...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    An option to allow all communities to be filtered by guest users

    In a Community Members tab there is an option to "Filter by: People from an outside organisation" to display guests from outside a community. This can only be used one community at a time to check guest users for a community. This enhancement requ...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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