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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    Post Content as another Person

    It would be great if you could publish content under someone else's name and/or if the content creator could be changed afterwards. Examples: For blogs, management wants their assistants to be able to publish content under their name. For files, ...
    about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Under Consideration

    Permit users to select nested folders in the Highlights files widget

    The current behavior of the HCL Highlightes files widget only permits you to select the parent folder to display in the widget. This request is to allow users to select subfolders as well. created a Community Navigated to Highlights Select Widgets...
    almost 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

    It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    More News Channel Configuration Options

    It would be great if it is possible to specify the amount of news a newschannel can show. For example if I have an ICEC page which uses as news source multiple channels from different communities. Then one can only specify the amount in total wh...
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Title picture on the profile page

    Design profile page more beautiful. The possibility to give the user to add his own title picture.
    over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Make the engagement center and Tiny Editors part of the standard Connections that installs with everything else.

    There are too many add-ons and third party tools making connections difficult to install, update, and migrate. Please consolidate all pieces owned my HCL in order to make the administration and maintenance less difficult.
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

    It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

    As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Other LDAP Posibillities - Azure AD Support.

    At the moment there are only LDAP options such as Active Directory, Domino LDAP, Open LDAP. We would like to have the option of connecting an Azure AD for external users as well.
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Already Exists
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