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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    Make community logo resize value (155x155) configurable

    When a community logo is uploaded, connections automatically resizes the image to 155x155. Currently this value can't be changed. A customer has changed the width of left column in the communities pages, so they can better fit some custom widgets....
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Changing community security level

    If a community is setup initially to only allow internal access this cannot be changed later to allow external users access. A new community must then be created for external users.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Moderation of wall posts/status updates and the respective comments

    So far the built-in moderation feature only covers blogs, forums, and files. Moderation of status updates and respective comments is not possible. - Flag as inappropriate is missing.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to identify the Communities/Files where a user owns

    Customer would like to have the ability to identify the Communities/Files where a user owns (regardless if the communities are restricted, moderate, open)?
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    introduce features to enable customization of Community survey forms

    This enhancement request is to introduce flexibility within HCL Connections Community surveys to enable admins to implement customizations of Surveys forms. This would allow to alter the design, layout, text, etc of the survey form to match the cu...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Community lifecycle Management

    Community lifecycle Management Is a community still up-to-date? Should it be deleted? Archiving?
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Add an easy way to add Volt apps to communities

    Volt apps could be created by community members and added to the community to increase the value of both systems. Volt apps could then "inherit" the community members (with owner/author/reader status) to control access (for the stages).
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Provide option to request access to restricted content

    Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Change Community access after creation - Allow people from outside of my organization to become members of this community

    Would save time and effort if you can change access to an existing Community to allow external users access.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Implement generative AI within Connections

    Implement generative AI features within Connections to help produce, organize, and manage content (end user perspective), and/or manage the system (administrator perspective).
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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