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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    Provide a more extensive authorization concept for Communities

    In our company we merged SharePoint and Confluence into Connections. Now our users are complaining because both tools had a much more advanced authorization management which can not be reproduced with Communities. For example with Confluence it wa...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search API should have have same results as Connections search

    e.g. Search via Search API should consider that hidden community blogs (of deleted communities) cannot be found --> same behavior as in Connections search.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow duplicate wiki page names

    Currently it´s not possible to create a wiki page with an existing name. This issue was reported by several departments including mine.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    A way to add email from Verse to activity

    Today is possible to add email from Verse to a Blog, but during normal operation it's normal to want to add an email to an activty
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    I wish I could use an email address as a way for an @mention when external member of ORG

    I wish I could use an email address as a way for an @mention when an external member of an ORG (this is a work around since external users cannot be @mentioned at current - and also are not notified of changes to a page - unless they are the autho...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow creation of sub Forums

    Currently, you can create many top level Forums. We would like to see the ability to create sub topics within Forums. For example, a top level Forum may be "LEAN 5S." Create Forum Topic, LEAN 5S. Then, create a sub forum, under LEAN 5S for each of...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow to view/retrieve all likes on forum, blog entries

    Until now only 25 last like profile can be displayed for one forum or blog entry. It should be possible to see the whole list, as well as getting this list in order to thanks people for the like action for example.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Mobile App and Filter in Link

    From a Browser: Create a community forum and then create a topic and add a tag to the topic. Create a second topic and add a tag. Go to the community overview page and in the Tag widget, click on the tag of one of the topics. You'll find that it t...
    over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Plugin for files as Box Drive

    the plugin should be improved so that it has similar functionality as the Box Drive.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Merge of communities

    Allow several communities to merge their entire contents requested by a common owner of these communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration
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