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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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Highlights template selections - need preview of design before applying

When you access Highlights --> Customize --> Page Settings --> Show Advanced --> Inherit From, you're given a list of community UUIDs to select from. There is no preview of what you're selecting, so you have no way of evaluating design...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Highlights template selections - need better identification of template

After you've marked certain community Highlights displays as templates, you can inherit the design in other communities. The problem is that the drop down list where you make a selection only lists the UUIDs of the communities, and it doesn't show...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

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...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

Short Community links shall be editable

In a Community-> Advanced Access Features you can provide a short name for short/ nice community link Unfortunately you can not edit this property if the community has subcommunities. This is a partially implemented/ not finished feature to m...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

allow resize the left sidebar also for community files

For community files we need the possibility to resize the left sidebar. Sometimes the Folder names are long and the user only see a part of the folder name and .... This is not very user friendly. The feature to resize the left sidebar (navigation...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

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

Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Fix menu bars when scrolling

Dear Team, one problem in the community is, that the menu bar on top and on the left of the page are not fixed upon scrolling. So I simply loose the option to navigate once I have reached lower parts of a page. This is highly annoying since most m...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Add members to main and subcommunity simultaneously

Please make it possible to add members to the main and subcommunity in one go. Also, if someone asks for Access to a subcommunity you as owner should have the Chance to add him to the subcommunity. By this he is automatically in the main community.
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration