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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    Embedded Experience is missing in Orient Me

    The classic homepage offered a very elegant way to get work done: the embedded experience allowed people to stay in the stream and work on event transactions in a popup that opened when clicking the event tile. In Orient Me this functionality was ...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Already Exists

    Change the default number of communities loading in Communities catalog page

    Communities catalog page renders only 10 communities at initial load. The card view has 4 communities per row, and with current setting 2 rows are rendered in full and the third row is rendered in half, with 2 communities. It would look better if ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Notification if File/Folder deleted

    Get a e-mail notification as community owner if someone deletes a file or folder!
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    External Users should be able to use the "My Notes" Widget within a external community

    We notice that an External Users can not take notices in the "My Notes" Widget but we would request to make this feature working for external users. This feature is popular with our internal users and should be used by a large number of external u...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Assessment

    Change default icon for application in Highlights

    Please add a way to customize how the application widget icons. There is a parameter in widgets-config.xml, but it does not help change the icon for application in Highlights. example of script: <widgetDef defId="label.customization.comm...
    about 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Improve how the comment title is shown embedded experience

    When a user comments in a status update and it is opened in the Embedded Experience in Connections homepage, the comment title gets truncated.
    about 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Add setting to not show sub Communities in My Communities

    Please allow a server setting to filter out sub communities from hte My Community list. For some users this is confusing depending how they work with Communities and sub communities. Having a server wide settings would be beneficial
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Adding new members to Moderated communities

    Nowadays when a new user is interested in joining a Community, they send a request which shows up in the notifications of the owners, when you click on this notification the next screen is the main page of the community of interest, then you have ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

    Share a file with expiry date.

    Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Option to export all participants of an event

    At the moment on our Connections 5.5 onprem system as well as in the Connections Social Cloud there is no feature or option to export the participants list of an community event. Via API calls we can develop a simple workaround but it would be nic...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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