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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    More News Channel Configuration Options

    It would be great if it is possible to specify the amount of news a newschannel can show. For example if I have an ICEC page which uses as news source multiple channels from different communities. Then one can only specify the amount in total wh...
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    The "password reset" feature should also work for internal users

    The ability to reset a password from the login page should also work for internal users and not only for external/guest users. Currently it does sort of work, but internal users get an error when they did change their password
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Make the engagement center and Tiny Editors part of the standard Connections that installs with everything else.

    There are too many add-ons and third party tools making connections difficult to install, update, and migrate. Please consolidate all pieces owned my HCL in order to make the administration and maintenance less difficult.
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

    It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

    As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Custom Page for User

    A self-assembled page. Our users would like a page that you can put together yourself. A page like Orient.Me only better configurable according to user's request with widgets. It would be best if the administrator could define the widgets that the...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration

    Remove the [ ] in "Platformname"

    Customer followed this official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/customize/t_customize_new_template.html it is mentioned, that it's prossible to remove the Platformname. But square brackets are still...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Other LDAP Posibillities - Azure AD Support.

    At the moment there are only LDAP options such as Active Directory, Domino LDAP, Open LDAP. We would like to have the option of connecting an Azure AD for external users as well.
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Already Exists

    Customize Community Mail Footer Links Using Variables

    While the links in the footer of community notifications can be customized using literal URLs in the associated FTL file, it would be nice to be able to use variables. Using a variable would allow for URL changes within the environment without hav...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Email notification when an activity entry is moved from one activity to another

    We don't get a mail notification when an entry is moved to an other activity in a community. Reproducible scenario:USER A does the following:1) Create community1b) Add User B as member in Community2) Follow Community3) Create Activity AAA in the c...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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