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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    Joining a community in an ideation blog redirects user to community overview page

    repro: * go into the ideation blog of a public community * click on community actions > join community to join the community * you will be added to the community, but you will be redirected to the community overview This confuses new users, bec...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Please add additional fields in communities

    We would like to see custom community extension fields (similar to Profiles) which would allow the user to e.g. maintain confidentiality level, archiving status, community sponsor, community type, etc.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Request support for AWS Amazon RDS for Oracle with HCL Connections

    HCL Connections 7.0 (and earlier) has not been tested with Amazon RDS for Oracle so this configuration is not officially supported. Would like to see this supported in the near future with HCL Connections.
    over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    add a third tab on members to see requests for membership in communities

    When I have a community that is limited, and require people to request membership I get a notification in the web and per mail. In the Members-app there is are two tabs. One with Members and one with Invitation. Could you please make a third one t...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add custom community widgets to the mobile app community experience

    When you have developed a useful custom community widget, you sure want it to appear on your mobile apps, too. There seems to be a simple and easy opportunity to achieve this: If the org extension model for custom community widgets would allow a...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Fix "Following Concept" in case of folder shared with a community

    Scenario. A Folder is shared with a community and the community is "owner" of this folder. This is not a community folder but it is owned by the community and visible within the community. If a user follows this community, the user is notified abo...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Fix a language bug in Connections

    The plural of Communitiy is Communites, not Communitys. This word naturally pops up in many places, you simply have to fix it, please. I am referring specifically to the German version of Connections. If you look below under "category", there you ...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 No Plans to Implement

    Better print of forums

    Nowadays, forum threads or individual posts can be hardly printed because all the clutter around the posted content. Please add some print button or perhaps support media:print everywhere via CSS
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to share a personal wiki with a community

    Currently a personal wiki can only be shared with other person. Some wikis are important for several communities, so it would be very usefull to be able to share with communities.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    See IDEACNCTNS-I-601 - not fixed yet!

    EXIF information is ignored by Connections if a picture is taken on mobile and uploaded. Not fixed in current 6.0 CR on server side even if feedback indicates that there was some change in the mobile app to address this.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration
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