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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    Increase guest invitation deadline

    External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Rich text editor for surveys

    A rich text editor (like in other apps) would be also useful in the app "surveys" e.g. to insert links, pictures and more.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Notify the community owner when member add/leave the community.

    Function request to send notification to the community owner when the member add/leave the community.Community owner would like to know the change of community member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Apache Server as the Web Server

    Customer would like Apache server to be be supported with HCL Connections. Currently only IBM IHS is officially supported.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Highlights templates - add ability to recover prior display after disabling template

    If you apply a template to Highlights, you cannot undo and revert to your prior display. You instead need to undo the template relationship, and then reformat Highlights to match the prior display. Seeking the ability to capture the original displ...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Highlights templates - request for warning message before applying template

    You can apply a template to Highlights, but there is not an undo option. Requesting that a warning message display indicating that the selection cannot be undone.
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Make salutation in Invite as a config option

    At the moment Invite calculate the salution for the start page from the displayname (split by space and use first part of the string). The displayname is not always formatted as "Givenname Lastname" it often contains parts like external, team, org...
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration
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