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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    Search loading issue in Connections 6.5 - Files & Profiles

    Hello, Search is not working on the Connections 6.5 - Files and profiles. I've raised ticket and came to know that this is known issue in Files and Profiles. Kindly look into the issue.
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search should be clever and more fuzzy (especially with german words)

    When I search something in Connections the search is not fuzzy and clever enough to consider e.g. the singular and plural form of a word. E.g. when we search for "startmoment" it gives different results than when we search for "startmomente" (the ...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    New community layout template

    When using the template "3 columns with menu on top and banner" the individual columns are quire narrow. Our users are asking for a similar template which contains underneath menu bar and banner only two columns: a broader column on the left hand ...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists

    Publish updates in several communities at once

    When posting an update/ publishing news it would be nice to be able to do so in several communities at once
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Community Customization

    All pages in the community should be customizable like "Highlights Page". Another option is the possibility to organize the pages in the menu area as well as disable the pages "Overview, Recent Updates, Status Updates". In my opnion, the Recent Up...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Hope: Only community owner (admin) can edit/delete files and folders, all members can only view and upload

    Currently Community Files and folders have below two roles: Editor: (Share, upload, and edit community files and folders) Reader: (Share, view files and folders in this community) Customer hope below function: Only community owner (admin) can edit...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Show the location of the Task in ToDoList overview

    Please see details in attached [Add the Activity name in the To Do Overview list (currently just lists the Action and not the activity it resides in.]
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Fix JS errors from external users invite system

    A vanilla CNX 6.5 installation throws JS errors: XML Parsing Error: not well-formedLocation: https://cnx65.internal/selfservice/acl/inviteLine Number 1, Column 1: The mentioned url returns the following JSON: {"access":false} So something is wrong...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Open bookmark directly when clicking on "open" in the newsletter instead of showing the overview list

    Our users reported that the got a newsletter notification mail about new bookmarks and when clicking on the "open" link in the newsletter, the browser navigates to the bookmarks overview page. Example url: https://cnx.host/communities/service/html...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Let Files Widgets Open Links In Same Tab

    Files and Files Explorer widgets currently have links with target="_blank". As a result, if the user clicks on a filename, the browser opens a new tab, redirectes the user to the community holding the file and then opens the Docs Viewer. That take...
    about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Already Exists
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