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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    Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

    There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    A notification or mail will be sent on birthdays

    You should receive a notification or e-mail if the person has a birthday to follow.
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Notification requirements

    More notification settings. For example, if a new blog post was created in a community, I would also like to receive a browser notification, not just email notifications.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    uid to show in Directory Search

    Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Make it possible to place the Survey app in the (home screen) Community on mobile

    We use the survey to get response on the quality of our community and the use of Connections. To enable this we put the survey on the homepage of our community (‘s). This works for the desktop version of Connections but in the mobile app users don...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 5 Under Consideration

    Connections search shall not be exact

    ConNext search shall support partial match — not requires to use wildcards. Moreover current wildcard search does not support special characters. (bug) .
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Profile picture upload dialog confuses people due to the rectangular instead of circled resizing

    The profile pictures are round and not rectangular any more. If a user uploads a new profile picture the preview is still rectangular which confuses people and makes it impossible to find the perfect fit as the image is displayed round after savin...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections App: Forum -> Show newest posts first

    In the browser, you can choose within a forum if you would like to see the oldest or the newest post first. We would love to have this option available on the mobile app as well.
    almost 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Support for multiple cloud accounts in Connections Sync for Mac

    I am a member of multiple organizations in Connections Cloud, but the mac sync plugin only allows me to connect to one of them. When i try to add a second one it tells me that i will need to remove the server connection to the first one first, whi...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement
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