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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    Enhance dialog for invited guest

    Guests outside of company can be invited. Once they accept the invitation a dialog appears with some information to fill - like password. We want to extend this dialog by a phone number (or other LDAP fields) - which is mandatory for some companie...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

    The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

    Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

    The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    Allow users to unfollow content using OrientMe Home Page

    The "classic" activity stream features the option "Stop Following" in order to unfollow content (IBM Help : Stop following) and receiving updates about an item or person. Unfortunately, this can not be performed in OrientMe and I have to switch to...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

    We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

    More Performance for ICEC

    The Engagement Center is a fantastic solution if you also use connections as an intranet platform. Unfortunately, the widgets in icec load very slowly. The performance should be increased here.
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Light Mode/Dark Mode View

    Users should be able to switch between light and dark mode, for example, in the header bar at the top right. Similar to what Activities Plus currently offers. In Activities Plus, users can switch between light and dark mode, depending on their pre...
    11 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Add hyperlink/link in HCL Connections logo in CNX8

    With the new Connections 8.0 update, some of the customizations are not working anymore. One of this is adding a hyperlink to the Connections logo. We would like to request this to be added in the future releases of Connecitons 8.0 via customizer ...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Change Invite process and possibilities into a more manageable service.

    In order to get a better understanding about your invited external users, there is a need for change in that process. Optional choice of security: Disallow all users to invite externals, except for those with the rights to do so. ( Like with Commu...
    about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Future Consideration

    Customizer - Additional Global Menu

    We would like to have an option to add an additional "global" menu, which can be added and modified via customizer. It should be located in the Header Area, on the left side between the logo and the search. It should be possible to add additional ...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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