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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04. Profiles

Add Sametime Chat Features to the Connections Mobile Application

Our users are missing chat functionality in the HCL Connections mobile application.Please integrate Sametime Chat features directly into the HCL Connections mobile app, as this will significantly enhance user adoption on our site. Many other colla...
about 1 year ago in 11. Mobile Needs Review

Right click on any place of the Community card, it should display open Community in new tab

On Communities List. if right click on a Community name, it shows "Open Link in New Tab". However, when right click on some other place of the Community card, it shows "Open Image in New Tab". Need "Open Link in New Tab" while right click on Commu...
about 1 year ago in 02. Communities Needs Review

Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files

Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files.
about 1 year ago in 03. Files Needs Review

Implement Community template not just for post-TE deployment but should include pre-existing communities as well

I noticed back in 2018 that I had a similar idea regarding Community templates, specifically this one: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-255 As stated in your product documentation: https://help.hcl-software.com/connec...
about 1 year ago in 02. Communities Needs Review

Option to disable the comments on Files-ensuring other features are working

I am following up on an idea proposed prior to 2019, which can be found here: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1461 My goal is to implement this idea in the best possible way. I have made some progress by applying ...
about 1 year ago in 03. Files Needs Review

Stopping legacy Activities application

There is nothing in the documentation that we could find that would indicate that it is possible to run Boards without Activities running. It seems as though you should be able to, but it turns out you can't. Is there any way of stopping legacy Ac...
about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas Assessment

Default time zone for user profile

User profile time zones are set to (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West by default. Can there by a quick and easy manner to configurable option to set a default time zone for all user profiles, i.e. "(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"...
about 1 year ago in 04. Profiles Needs Review

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 Needs Review

Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH)

Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH) - To use CEPH in place of NFS. - To use default security privileges by OpenShift. - To use UID assigned by OpenShift.
about 1 year ago in 13. Other Needs Review

Allowing PROF_DEPARTMENT_NUMBER values or deptNumber to render Directory Search results

We followed your troubleshooting article https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0021499 to set up a preferred name, and everything worked fine. This gave us the idea to check if your system has a column or field f...
about 1 year ago in 04. Profiles Needs Review
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