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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    Exclude Filter for tags

    When filtering by tag in the tag cloud I would like the possibility to select tags to be excluded from the results. Main use case in mind is for example to exclude entries tagged with foreign language e.g. 'lang_de' to only display topics I can re...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance #bottom anchored text to redirect to the bottom of the Community Overview

    We are using the Textbox.io or Tiny MCE for Connections. Using a Bookmark/anchor: #bottom should work correctly when adding into the Community Rich Content widget or Community Description widget in a community and redirect to the bottom of the page.
    about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Request function of changing the default access type when creating a community.

    When a user creates a community, the default Access type of the new community is "Public to My Organization". We want connections to provide a function so that the user can set the default type to others like "Restricted".
    about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Files shared by link should present should present login form

    Users are able to share files by links since 6.0 CR4. The only problem is that if I receive such a link by mail and I click on it, I will get an error unless I'm already logged into connections. Can't these be improved for a better user experience...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Already Exists

    Edit Bookmarks does not work correcty

    The pop-down menu on the right side offers the option to "modify" your bookmark . In reality you can simply and only alter the number of displayed bookmarks in the shown window. If you want to make relevant changes you have to go into the applicat...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Not possible to post Firefox compatible file links into a status update

    We want to have the possibility to post links to file shares into status updates in Connections since we store files on file shares as well. A link looks like this and it should be possible to make this clickable in status updates. Firefox should ...
    over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Remove Connections Files Sync from Dock on MacOS

    Connections files syncs should work like the other applications dropbox, onedrive, box etc. The icon on dock needs to be removed, and only the icon on menu bar
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Externals / Visitors should be able to be owners of restricted (external) communities

    In our company we do have for example externals which provide application support within Connections. That's why it would be great if they could edit forum entries, use @-mentions for community members, ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Change order of related communities

    ​It would be nice if we could change the order of the linked/related communities (on community start page), since only 5 are visible in the preview.
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    show in the section "My Communities" only the communities I'm a member of

    At the moment you find under "my communities" also communities you are not a member of. It also lists communities you've randomly clicked on in the "explore" section.
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists
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