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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    New Blog Features

    User would like to see, on either the right or left side of a blog, the titles of past blog post titles. Yes, he can click on themonths, but for an irregular post schedule, that's a lot of clicking to see the blog titles.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to add formatted URL in status update

    When posting on a forum or a blog entry, a full-text editor appears where you can insert (for instance) URL's, pictures and tables. When posting an update, there's no editor, so it's impossible to inserta link in the text. Users have to copy/paste...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Provide API to register Embedded Experience Org Extensions

    Currently, the only organization extension that can be managed (create, update, delete) via REST API is Community Apps (widgets). We will need to have the same type of API for all organization extension types, namely *Activity Stream's Embedded Ex...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Cloud customers should be able to register custom (3rd Party) applications for the activity stream.

    Cloud customers should be able to register custom (3rd Party) applications for the activity stream, the same way that it can be done for Connections on premises
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Clarification

    Introduce the ability to restrict the use of certain search keywords for searching Connections

    Introduce an option/configurable method for administrators to specify a list of restricted keyword strings that users are not permitted to use to search Connections content. Similar to the blacklisting of certain search keywords in the environment.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to integrate XPhone Connect Chat

    Possibility to integrate XPhone Connect Chat Status in the Profiles and Webchat Windows. https://www.c4b.com/de/xphone-connect/chat/
    over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    The possibility to add a new Tab in the Profile Edit Mode

    There is currently no HCL documentation that describes how to create a new tab in the Profile Editor view where you can find the desired profile extensions. Example: Tab Contact Information and a new Custom Edit Tab --> IT Information
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    "Forum application default view" does not work function as expected

    Under Community Actions > Edit Community > Forums you have the following settings: Communities overview page > Show topic list by default Forum application default view > Show forum list by default From the Overview page if you click o...
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    When clicking on a document in the activity stream unable to open in a new tab

    The communities when opened in a new tab open properly. The activity stream document links when opened in a new tab does not open and shows about:block page. This only works on the Files component.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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