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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Ideas

    Allow creation of sub Forums

    Currently, you can create many top level Forums. We would like to see the ability to create sub topics within Forums. For example, a top level Forum may be "LEAN 5S." Create Forum Topic, LEAN 5S. Then, create a sub forum, under LEAN 5S for each of...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow to view/retrieve all likes on forum, blog entries

    Until now only 25 last like profile can be displayed for one forum or blog entry. It should be possible to see the whole list, as well as getting this list in order to thanks people for the like action for example.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Request to add print functionality or print button for Calendar Events view in Communities

    Request to add functionality to only print the Calendar event view. Currently when printing through the browser the entire Community is printed that includes the Calendar of events but also the navigator along the left hand side. We are requesting...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Use Bookmarks to create shorten links

    Bookmarks is a great feature, but it needs to be extend. The possibility to create Shorten Links with bookmarks can bring a create feature to connections. Those links could be accessed internally or externally. Add some statistics can help users t...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    ICXT - Enhance manage wikis UI to restrict visibility of private wikis

    ICXT shows the wrong visibility for stand-alone wikis. For stand-alone wikis:If you set the wiki rights as:Read: Wiki members onlyEdit: Wiki editors and owners only In ICXT--> Manage --> Wikiit will show the field "Visibility" as "Public for...
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Fix CNAME violation of DNS specification

    Multiple friends and colleges can't reach the idea lab, because you CNAME record violates the DNS specifications: $ dig connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.4-Ubuntu <<>> connections-ideas.hcltechsw....
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

    In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

    It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Title picture on the profile page

    Design profile page more beautiful. The possibility to give the user to add his own title picture.
    over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 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
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