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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    Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

    f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

    If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Support for SharePoint widget interaction with GCC High

    Requesting official testing and support for the SharePoint widget when accessing SharePoint as part of Microsoft Office 365 GCC High.
    over 1 year ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

    It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

    A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Provide additional font sizes for Tiny Editor

    The default font sizes available with TINY editor is 8, 10 ,12 ,14 ,18, 24 and 36pt . It would be great to have also size 9 or 11 ; best would be in 1 step
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Reply Function in Blog and Wiki Comments (HCL Connections App)

    It is currently not possible to reply to a colleague's blog or Wiki comments. I have to @Mention the person I want to reply with so that he receives a notification.
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 No Plans to Implement

    Sync calendars with iCal

    It would be perfect to enable sync between Connections/Verse Calendar and external iCal. Many use iCal for family activity scheduling and have to open both the Verse Calendar and the Apple iCal or Google Cal to make sure they are coordinated. Sync...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Comeback for Connections Editor (mobile) app

    The Connections Editor mobile app went EOS & EOL a while back: https://hclpnpsupport.hcltech.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022237&sys_kb_id=aab7bab71bd9fb4077761fc58d4bcb2d Still it is very useful for many users working mobi...
    almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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