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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    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 0 Needs Review

    Sametime integration

    Allow easy, out of box, server-side integration between Connections and Sametime onprem. All names shall be decorated with online presence indicator and there should be a “who is online” widget in communities.
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Future Consideration

    Make COMMUNITY VIEWER a Permanent Community Feature in Connections!

    Community Viewer Allows end users to See All the Communities they Follow or Belong to, and to organize All their communities by in grid or list form, to be able to access your Most needed, and to quickly Launch to a specific area in the Community-...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 20 Future Consideration

    General Integration of GroupChat services (MS Teams, Slack, Sametime, etc.)

    When identifying an expert on Connections directly start a chat from the user profile and/or profile business card.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration

    Enable Desktop Plugin for External Users

    The Desktop / Office Plugin is a very important and helpful tool for adoption. Some customers want to use it for external users too.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 5 Under Consideration

    Display Connections Events and Activities in Notes/Verse calendar

    Allow simple, out of box integration of Events and Activity deadlines with Domino based calendars in Notes/Verse without the need to create a calendar overlay which works only in Notes. A single checkbox shall do all the work and populate user’s p...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app

    I tested this on Connections 6.0 environment and community owners are able to see the "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app.This behavior changed in version 7.0 but our users are still using the old Overview page as commu...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Needs Clarification

    Requesting additional functionality for File Sync within Connections Desktop Plugin

    We are requesting the following improvements be made to File Sync when using the Connections Desktop Plugin: Ability to sync files that belong to a community, not an individual (this already works in the mobile app, and is part of the reason for t...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 5 Under Consideration

    Develop Integration with other Collaboration Platforms (O365, G-suite)

    Connections is social enterprise software, and it does that well. Connections is enterprise collaboration software, and it does that well. Connections is not so good at personal/small team collaboration, where O365 and G-suite excel....and have th...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 3 Under Consideration

    Changing of Font format style of @mention tags in Tiny Editor

    Currently, changing of font format style for @mention tags of users in CKEditor is possible but not in Tiny Editor. It would be good if changing of font format style (italic, bold, underline, font size, font style) for @mention tags in Tiny Editor...
    6 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review
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