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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    Editor "Mode"

    Some users would like to have a dedicated Editor mode. On Wikis, Blogs, ICEC Pages, basically all Connections Applications and Pages where they have editor access, the buttons like "Edit" should be hidden. Only when the users activate die "Edit" f...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    External Access to Existing communties

    Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ideation Blog Widget - select specific ideation blog to display

    A community can have several ideation blogs. The connections ideation blog app makes navigating and managing those entries easier as there is an option to display the blogs first, selecting the blog in question and then browse through the indiviud...
    over 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Add support of OnlyOffice

    It is possible to integrate OnlyOffice in Connections. https://www.onlyoffice.com/fr/
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

    When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Let me know when a survey is taken

    I see no option to receive an email or notifaction when someone took the time to respond to a survey I made
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Ability to disable certain widgets within Highlights

    Requesting the ability to control the display for Highlights widgets via a configuration parameter. We would like to disable, for example, the "iFrame" widget across all communities so that it is not displayed as a choice.
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Enlarging the number of excel data (XLSX) which can be previewed

    The file viewer should allow a bigger amount to data to be previewed. That is we would like to enhance the 1024 column limitation Currently supported features : https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022015
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Allow admins to choose which user gets associated with a community in search results

    The person who creates a community will permanently be associated with the community as the original community creator. Search results that display communities display the community creator without any additional context. If the community creator ...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Single File, Element, Object restore posibility

    Single File, Element, Object restore posibility. By using Meta Data on Fileshare, JSON. XML.
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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