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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    Activity notification should be on off switchable

    ​With creation of an activity every member will be informed about it. That's OK and reasonable. But later with every single change for example of the wording or some detail, again every member of the activity will get mail notification. That means...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Link Files from other communities

    Currently, it is only possible to link to a file in a Wiki page from the community where the Wiki belongs to. But sometimes it would be very useful if you can link to files from other communities.Please implement the ability to select files from o...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Request for Support from Oracle 18c for Connections

    Customer requests support of Oracle 18c with Connections 5.5 and 6.0 as we plan to migrated from Oracle 12c to Oracle 18c.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 3 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to change the order of existent subcommunities

    It would be great to be able to change the order of appearence of the subcommunities inside the "Subcommunities" widget / on the Subcommunities list on the left side of the parent community. sortable by creation date, amount of members, alphabetic...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Automatic tagging based on templates

    Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

    There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under 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 7 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 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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