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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    Allow remove and re-assign ALL users content to someone else by one click

    The scenario of interest is how to reassign user content after they have left the company/organization. This means how can we change the content ownership such as files, communities, wikis, blogs, forums, etc. by one click. Allow to re-assign info...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Support MS SQL for surveys

    As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

    What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

    The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Editor "Mode"

    Some users would like to have a dedicated Editor mode. On Wikis, Blogs, ICEC Pages, basically all Connections Applications and Pages where they have editor access, the buttons like "Edit" should be hidden. Only when the users activate die "Edit" f...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    External Access to Existing communties

    Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ideation Blog Widget - select specific ideation blog to display

    A community can have several ideation blogs. The connections ideation blog app makes navigating and managing those entries easier as there is an option to display the blogs first, selecting the blog in question and then browse through the indiviud...
    over 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

    When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Let me know when a survey is taken

    I see no option to receive an email or notifaction when someone took the time to respond to a survey I made
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Ability to disable certain widgets within Highlights

    Requesting the ability to control the display for Highlights widgets via a configuration parameter. We would like to disable, for example, the "iFrame" widget across all communities so that it is not displayed as a choice.
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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