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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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02. Communities

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Provide control of order of "menu items" in Community to Community Owner

Connections Communities use a menu bar for the different apps within the most popular and modern approaches like highlights. The sort order of the items is given by the software package. There are good ideas why "Highlight" should become the first...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

Copy an existing community incl. all members

It would be helpful if a user would have the following options / choice when copying an existing community: copy with all members / copy without existing members. Currently all members need to be added manually once a community has been duplicated.
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

If community widgets are hidden option should be available to hide from community navigation bar

If a user decides to hide one or more of his community widgets he should have the option to also have the specific widgets not shown on the community navigation bar.
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

External Access to Existing communties

Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

Add more actions for multiple files selected inside a community

If you select multiple files inside a community, Connections only shows the action to download all files selected. The system need to show other actions like delete, add tags, share, etc for multiple files selected
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration