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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    Tool for administrators to quickly and easily make Connections profiles changes for users

    Security policy denies users access to change their personal information in Connections Cloud Profiles. To update their information, they have been using the Integration Server solution which they find quite hard to handle. Even minor changes like...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    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

    External Content Site Documentation

    Would like a description of each External site, all we have is the gather url
    almost 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Needs Clarification

    prevent Elasticsearch custom date view by field from switching values based on date ranges

    Currently when viewing metrics reports, when selecting Custom dates, the view by field will automatically switch to week if the date range you select is 14 days or more. This occurs even if you initially select View by to a value of "day". Reprodu...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Docs cluster name remain by uninstall

    The customer uninstalled Docs by IM. Uninstalling HCL Docs components using the installer https://help.hcltechsw.com/docs/v2.0/onprem_2.0/2.0_CR3_install_guide/guide/text/uninstalling_installer.html However, the following cluster name remain on We...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    3rd party repo Docs integration and Protected cells feature

    Now there is no possibility to choose from the list of users an user who can edit protected cells in Docs Spreedsheet Editor. This works only for integration with HCL Connections. With 3rd party repository there is no api to do that.
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    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

    I would like to set the first item in the font list of Docs Editor with what I want.

    I just have a simple request about Font in Docs Editor. When the user tried to create new word document, the user can see the first font name is "Arial" Docs Editor. But the user want to see the other font item in the first level of font list. I w...
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Method for performing silent installation of Community surveys

    This is a request to introduce the ability to install Community surveys in silent mode using a response file. Currently this is not available. You cannot even run the installation in console mode, you will receive an error indicating: "Error: The ...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    "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
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