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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    Add Member to an sub-community

    If a user request to join an moderated community than is this no problem, but if this moderated community has an moderated sub-community, and you want to use the option "Add Member" after an request, you receive an error message: "cannot be added ...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow square logos for communities

    There should be an option to disable the circle mask for community logos. Many logos are square and do not look well with cropped edges or scaled down to fit in the middle. Square bolts simply do not fit well into round holes ;-) A simple checkbo...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Add support for dark mode in Teams integration

    The whole Connections integration in Teams is only usable when working with Teams set to default colors. If using the dark mode, many Connections dialogues, (like choosing a Community, choosing a file, etc.) are barely readable. Of course, it woul...
    almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

    It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Onboarding-Wizard during creating in Community

    In my daily work i always have to explain, what kind of app in a community our customers should choose, when thy want to do something. So i always habe to explain " when you want to inform your Communitys and you have Content like files, some text...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    TinyMCE "Code Sample .." in Forums

    We noticed that the funcion "Code Sample .." in TinyMCE is missing for Forums when creating Forum Topics. We would appriciate to add this function also there.
    almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Store a copy of the 'Mail to community' mails you send through Connections in the community itself

    When using the 'Mail to community' it is impossible to see later which mails were send. It would be nice if a copy (pdf?) of these would be stored in the community files (or another location) as well so you can see which mails were send when and t...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Needs Clarification

    Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

    It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

    As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Teaser image of a blog in Connections mobile app

    Right now you are able to open a list of Blogs (e.g. Community Blogs). If there are images posted in a blog, you have to first open this blog to be able to see them. (there are already descriptions in the overview for the title and the first few...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration
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