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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    Sent mail to community members seems to have limitations

    In case the owner use the mail to community option there are two limitations: Click to compose using your default email client >> not possible for communities with a large number of members (e.g 41 members is not working) Not possible to ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Sharing files from parent community to subcommunities

    A top level community admin can create a file in that community so that they can share a file to all other subordinate communities and the top level community can control both the content of the document and if it is deleted from the top level it ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to mail other external Community members from an external community member

    When somebody sends an email to a community, the sender is the email address. If that person is an external user, the sender address is the external email address. When that external user sends a mail to other external members in the community....
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

    In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
    about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Calendar Picker for event shall start week on Monday

    I have setup an event on a Sunday because the week starts on Sunday in the calendar picker. At least an option to change this would be great.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to fill in pdf forms

    Possibility to fill in PDF forms and send the forms via mail.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

    All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

    Create events with limited members

    it would be greate to create events with limited members. After the limit is reached, users can't no more attend to the event.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Combine Recent Updates and Status Updates into one menu item in communites

    These 2 take up valuable landscape in the menu bar and are used way too infrequently. Combine into one view and give users the option to filter, as necessary. Accelerate value of updates and finding the latest changes within communities! See also ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

    For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner fo...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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