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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    Option to disable the comments in wikis

    In our company, wikis are very often used for user instructions and as a knowledge archive. Especially with the instructions, many users ask questions and provide feedback in the comments on the wiki pages - which quickly becomes confusing. And a ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 5 Future Consideration

    Orient ME Component Pack - ITM bar old entries cannot be deleted

    Hello Dev Team and Offering Management, We would like to ask for a potential enhancement if this can be done sooner. Whenever there are old entry/entries in the ITM bar, let us say that person or employee was deleted or inactivated. The entry for ...
    about 3 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Needs Review

    improve the maximum files displayed for Files list and Folders widgets

    Hello HCL Connections offering management, I would like to bring to your attention the product documentations provided for your product. Specifically, I am referring to the following links: - https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connect...
    about 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

    Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

    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

    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

    Useful email notifications

    You have recently changed email notifications so they they are in rich text format (which looks nice) but has removed the direct links to threads and authors (removed functionality). Please put those back, and stop asking me to hunt around Connect...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 5 Future Consideration

    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
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