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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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Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.

Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

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...
about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
almost 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 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 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Display of Web Reports "Last Report Time" in CSV or PDF should default to local time instead of GMT time

The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Time" field is local timezone but when exported to CSV or to PDF, the times in "Last Report Time" field in file are GMT. The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Ti...
over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

Increase number of custom profile fields limit (IBM Connections Cloud)

We are using custom fields on profiles (IBM Help: Customizing your organization > Updating user profiles). Currently we use 8 of them and there is a limit of 10 custom fields.Can this limit be extended? On-prem you do not have a limitation and ...
over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

Able to search Guest user within directory.

There is a function within Connections Cloud / SmartCloud that allows external contacts to be added so that customer can use the collaboration tools. These are Guest / House accounts. When searching our directories, we are unable to find these acc...
over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

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.
almost 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

Easy tagging people by clicking on existing tags

I can see which tags are assigned to a profile. If I want to contribute also and emphasize on an existing tag, I need to write it or copy it. My idea is to have the possibility to click on the tag itself and with that action I added it to the prof...
10 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review