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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    Handles of sub-communities usable only in conjunction with main community handles

    Handles to a subcommunity can only be used in conjunction with the handle to the main community. I find this behavior surprising. Example: This community https://<hostname>/communities/service/html/communitystart?communityUuid=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Invite - start the process from a community

    Please enhance the feature of Community Invite which was introduced in V6.5: allow the process to start also from a community - perhaps from the community actions menu or by a button on community members page "invite new external user into this co...
    about 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Ability to change default view for Community Files (and Files in general)

    Connections should allow administrator to set default Files and Community Files view for users.
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Customizing Text in Surveys App

    Make it possible customize the Text from the Surveys App, when a User is finished with the Survey "Thank you for participating.".
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Preview of images not working with uppercase JPG extensions with Connections Desktop Plug-ins

    If an image file gets uploaded with uppercase file type extension (.JPG/.PNG) through Connections Desktop Plug-ins preview of images are not available.The issue was reported for the preview displayed in the activity stream. For example, if an user...
    about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer / 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Easy tagging people by clicking on existing tags

    I can see which tags are assigned to a profile. If I want to contribute also and emphasize on an existing tag, I need to write it or copy it. My idea is to have the possibility to click on the tag itself and with that action I added it to the prof...
    about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Connections Invite blacklist of domains which are not allowed to invite

    We have a large set of mail domains and our users don't understand that they aren't allowed to invite internal users within Invite. We don't onboard automatically to Connections, so users invite colleagues through Invite to speed up their access. ...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Change Community catalog view logic for "recent updates" to show updates rather than all reads

    The Trending with My Company view shows the number of "recent updates" for each community. This number is the total number of all events reflected in the ElasticSearch index for each community over the last 7 days. This includes visits and other r...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Under Consideration

    Kudos boards comment links to "undefined" in v2 newsletter

    The user got notified about a comment added to his card in his regularly newsletter. By clicking those link, we got an error because it links to https://cnxhost/boardsundefined
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

    When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review
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