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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    Add members to main and subcommunity simultaneously

    Please make it possible to add members to the main and subcommunity in one go. Also, if someone asks for Access to a subcommunity you as owner should have the Chance to add him to the subcommunity. By this he is automatically in the main community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to configure default view in Connections Desktop Plug-in

    When going to My files in the Connectons desktop plugin, we default to the Tiles view. You can change to the list, details, content etc. views. However, this is not presevered ... so you have to change the view everytime. In Windows Explorer, you ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Add a Community homepage widget to show the community status updates on the homepage too

    Community status updates are a handy and important option to inform users of what's going on in a community. However, they are not shown on the community homepage (unless you change the default homepage to the status updates view) and therefore ha...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Orient Me: Make it possible to add a public community you neither follow nor are a member of to the "Important To Me" bar.

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:In Orient Me, it's not possible to add communities to Important To Me (ITM) bar that you are not a member of. STEPS TO REPRODUCE:1. Go into orient me and click on the + button in the Important to me bar.2. Search for a commun...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Already Exists

    Ability to cancel out of More selection on iOS

    If you click the "More" option on bottom right of iOS app, you can't undo the choice. You're forced to make a new selection. It would be better to be able to cancel out of the menu to go back to where you were. Otherwise, you lose context. Recomme...
    over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Improved handling of community wiki search results on mobile

    This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. Search results should be presented in a more clear manner for community wiki results. Usability Issue 1 - Search result shows "Community Wiki" inste...
    over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Transfer Community content immediately to another admin when Business Owner is deleted

    The current process is: When a business owner is soft deleted and the ''assign To'' field is filled in, the Communities are put into a trash state. After 30 days the user is hard deleted. Then on the 90th day the content is transferred to the pers...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Add a community(members) to a survey

    When a (leap) survey is created, you can add users to it. In the previous survey version in Connections 6.5, you created a survey in a community, so the members could use the survey. In the leap version, you have to add the users. Many users are a...
    10 months ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment

    Community Member Management - Allow Bulk Removal

    Please allow the removal of multiple member at once. Allow community owner to select N members and select remove members. It is pretty annoying if you have to remove >10 users at once from a community and you have to remove member by member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration
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