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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    Add the option to set a URL in Rules home page personalization to "allmycommunities" page

    In ICEC Settings > Home Page personalisation > Edit personalization there is an option to select community pages as well as engagement center pages (XCC) but there is no option to redirect users to "all my communites". Sometimes our customer...
    about 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Make the format (H1, bold, italic, etc.) from the Blogentry available in the Newswidgets

    The newswidget does not differnciate and shows only plain text, even if there is formated text in the Blogentry. It makes it more difficult to read. Please change and make the format available also in the widgets.
    29 days ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals.

    Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals. If this were present in the native product, we would no longer need our FileNet deployment.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Accept/decline community invitations from within the notification

    "When a Connections user is invited to a community they should be able to accept/decline from within the invitation notification email, or be redirected to a page where the accept/decline options are clear. "Also, the Connections Administrator sho...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Viewing and editing of documents or powerpoint with charts

    Currently, Viewing and editing of charts remains a limitation in Docs 2.0.2. When you open to view or edit a PPT or documents that contains charts, it will not be displayed. It is only possible to display charts if this will be converted to images...
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Pinning of community files and files shared with a community not possible

    2 Scenarios to upload a file: A user can upload a file into "My Files": * pinning is possible in the Files app (via "My Files", "Public Files", etc.). A user can share this file (uploaded into the "My Files") with a community ("Shared from Files")...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to share externally from files

    We would like the ability to share files added on Connections Cloud with external people and partners from their company. We deal a lot with external partners and it is a hassle to have to save the file locally from Connections Cloud and then atta...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 12 Needs Clarification

    Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

    Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Add social media widgets

    To add the social media channels our customers are using a third party tool like elfsight or others. Our customers are complaining about that the competing products like sharepoint have an option (widget) where social media channels can be configu...
    10 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Make COMMUNITY VIEWER a Permanent Community Feature in Connections!

    Community Viewer Allows end users to See All the Communities they Follow or Belong to, and to organize All their communities by in grid or list form, to be able to access your Most needed, and to quickly Launch to a specific area in the Community-...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 20 Future Consideration
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