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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    Link Shortening

    Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

    Implement Community template not just for post-TE deployment but should include pre-existing communities as well

    I noticed back in 2018 that I had a similar idea regarding Community templates, specifically this one: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-255 As stated in your product documentation: https://help.hcl-software.com/connec...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Add the option to set a URL in Rules home page personalization to "allmycommunities" page

    In ICEC Settings > Home Page personalisation > Edit personalization there is an option to select community pages as well as engagement center pages (XCC) but there is no option to redirect users to "all my communites". Sometimes our customer...
    about 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Allow SVG to work with TinyMCE Editor

    Is there a way for HCL to support SVG when writing content with SVG elements through the Rich Content widget when using TinyMCE Editor? I am sure you're all aware of this issue, but I dont understand why its not being implemented. I have heard fro...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    adding exclusions for ldap groups in appregistry

    When writing a app in appreg it is possible to add exclusions for users. For these users the app is not applied. Currently the users have to be listed one by one in the app. It would be good to add exclusion for a ldap group if users for exclusion...
    10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Desktop Plug-in file locked status is displayed incorrectly

    When user closes a file that has been locked, the status of the file in desktop plugin windows explorer remains locked even if the file has been unlocked. Users need to refresh the windows explorer to change the state of the file. It would be help...
    5 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Accept/decline community invitations from within the notification

    "When a Connections user is invited to a community they should be able to accept/decline from within the invitation notification email, or be redirected to a page where the accept/decline options are clear. "Also, the Connections Administrator sho...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Insert Photo in comment

    Adding a photo to a comment is quite useful, for example, when trying to describe an error, it is better to attach a screen shot of the error than describe it by words.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Connections email-integration with Verse, Notes and outlook (eml AND msg)

    share mail to community as eml files from verse/notes (or MSG from outlook) make eml/msg files in communities previewable make attachments in mails available as contained files allow to store email attachment from Verse directly in personal ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Assessment

    Desktop Plugin - Suppress Sync Errors During Server Maintenance (Maintenance Mode)

    Idea: Implement a logic within the HCL Connections Desktop Plugin that detects when the server is in a designated "Maintenance State" (e.g. HTTP 503 or HTTP 540) and temporarily suppresses user-facing error pop-ups. User Story: From the Administra...
    4 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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