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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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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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 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future 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 n...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Let me choose the audience when posting a status update from the Activity Stream

Within the mobile app I can choose the target audience of a status update directly when posting it. In the web UI I have to first open the Community and post it there.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Consistent Emoticon support

I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

New Design V8

In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

Make lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality consistent in all components (orient me and community catalog)

For me as a user it is not understandable, why the lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality is implemented differently in different components. It should look and behave the same in all components. For example the back to top button is in...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Increase the Who Connects Us widget SaND graph Limit

A very old PMR which related to a user not knowing why certain people would not ever show in the "Who Connects Us" widget. The widget works off a Graph which is limited to 400 values. These values are built from the list of Connections Profile Con...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration