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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    Embed a video file in a blog

    Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review

    Add possibility edit status updates

    Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    External community members should also get notifications

    Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

    Stop to follow your own contents changed by yourself

    In many cases I get notified that I changed my own content. This is not helpful. Please surpress these kind of notifications.
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Shared Files to be Included in Community Folder

    When files are shared by someone with a community, those files cannot be put into a community folder. It would be ideal if all files in a community (whether owned by the community or shared with the community) could appear in the same folder.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

    In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
    about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Fix assigning community template admin roles

    Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Adding option to "Accept or Decline" a request to join a moderated community in Homepage Top Updates

    If a user requests to join a moderated community, the owner of the community can only accept or decline the request in Latest Updates. This option is also helpful if it is added to Homepage Top Update/Activity Stream.
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Wiki Macro - Dynamic Table of Contents for SubPages

    I know the macro for a page to generate the TOC based on the headings. I would like the same for a parent page based on its child pages. It is a best practice to structure a Wiki by creating subpages. Unfortunately some root pages looks quite empt...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration
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