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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    Changing community security level

    If a community is setup initially to only allow internal access this cannot be changed later to allow external users access. A new community must then be created for external users.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to identify the Communities/Files where a user owns

    Customer would like to have the ability to identify the Communities/Files where a user owns (regardless if the communities are restricted, moderate, open)?
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    introduce features to enable customization of Community survey forms

    This enhancement request is to introduce flexibility within HCL Connections Community surveys to enable admins to implement customizations of Surveys forms. This would allow to alter the design, layout, text, etc of the survey form to match the cu...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Community lifecycle Management

    Community lifecycle Management Is a community still up-to-date? Should it be deleted? Archiving?
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Ideation Blog Widget in CEC does not display an image entry

    The Ideation widget in Connections Engagement Center does not display an image in the Ideation blog entry. It only displays the text in the Ideation blog entry. It would be very helpful for users to be able to see the image associated with the blo...
    almost 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    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

    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

    Provide all users in Connections MT access to an HCEC portal for change management

    Requesting the functionality to have an HCL Connections Engagement Center (HCEC) landing page accessible to all organizations within an MT environment). This HCEC portal for change management should be accessible anonymously and/or in a "read only".
    over 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Needs Clarification

    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
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