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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How to Automatically update Community Name Folder locally when the name changes in Connections

When changing the Community Name in Connections, the only way to change the name in the Connections Plugin is to do it manually. How to do this change automatically?
about 1 month ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

Changing "Request to Join this Community" to something like "Joining Request had been sent" after sumbited joining requst

When request to join a moderated community, user sumbit joining request by clicking "Request to Join this Community". After request was submitted, the "Request to Join this Community" would still be displayed. "Request to Join this Community" shou...
about 1 month ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
119 VOTE

Link Shortening

Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
5 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
113 VOTE

Bridge the gap between Connections and Domino.

Make the integration seamless and awesome. For browser, Notes, Verse and mobile. Period.
about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration

Services Status Page for Monitoring

This idea suggests to introduce a HTTP status page for all Connections services. This status page will enhance and simplify service monitoring and load balancing on the infrastructure level. If Connections is configured for Federated Authenticatio...
6 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Community: Option to notify all community members

When using "Notify other people" in a community blog there is no option to select all community members. Instead you would have to tick evey single member. That is very cumbersome.
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 9 Future Consideration

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals.

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals. If this were present in the native product, we would no longer need our FileNet deployment.
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Accept/decline community invitations from within the notification

"When a Connections user is invited to a community they should be able to accept/decline from within the invitation notification email, or be redirected to a page where the accept/decline options are clear. "Also, the Connections Administrator sho...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration
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