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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    Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

    Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Make COMMUNITY VIEWER a Permanent Community Feature in Connections!

    Community Viewer Allows end users to See All the Communities they Follow or Belong to, and to organize All their communities by in grid or list form, to be able to access your Most needed, and to quickly Launch to a specific area in the Community-...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 20 Future Consideration

    Give Administrators ability to set the default Homepage experience either Classic or OrientMe

    Currently the default homepage for users when they click the HOME link in the navbar is the Classic Homepage. Would like the ability for Org Admins to decide between the Classic Homepage or the OrientMe homepage whilst still allowing end users the...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Already Exists

    "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app

    I tested this on Connections 6.0 environment and community owners are able to see the "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app.This behavior changed in version 7.0 but our users are still using the old Overview page as commu...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Needs Clarification

    Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

    Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
    11 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Community Bookmarks should have a "open in new window" option

    To be sure to stay in your current context, community bookmarks should not only have the option to be important, they should also be allowed to be opened in a new window/tab so the community view stays available for you.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Orient ME Component Pack - ITM bar old entries cannot be deleted

    Hello Dev Team and Offering Management, We would like to ask for a potential enhancement if this can be done sooner. Whenever there are old entry/entries in the ITM bar, let us say that person or employee was deleted or inactivated. The entry for ...
    about 3 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Needs Review

    improve the maximum files displayed for Files list and Folders widgets

    Hello HCL Connections offering management, I would like to bring to your attention the product documentations provided for your product. Specifically, I am referring to the following links: - https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connect...
    about 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

    Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

    Embed a video file in a blog

    Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review
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