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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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.
almost 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

API to list community members of given time frame

Our requirement is : An API to list all the members who have joined a particular community for a certain period of time(30days/60days)."
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Ability for users to configure whether Homepage links open in current or new tabs

On Homepage, if you click a link, it opens in a new tab instead of opening it on current tab. Need option to allow user to choose whether open a link on Homepage, it opens in a new tab or on current tab.
8 months ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Modernizing the Calendar (Event) Widget

User Interface (UI) Design: Consider a clean, intuitive, and responsive design. Bootstrap, Material Design, or other modern UI frameworks can be helpful. Event Display: Use a modern card-based layout or a timeline view for events to enhance user e...
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
about 2 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Search in Blog and Wiki combining tags and keywords

Currently it is not possible within a single wiki or blog to search with a combination of tags and keywords. (It is possible in Forums) You can just filter by tags but not do both Example search entries tagged with 'connext' containing the keyword...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Most Used/followed Tags

Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page?

Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page? This will facilitate in removing community applications without the extra step of reconfiguring the community start page.
9 months ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Highlights template selections - need preview of design before applying

When you access Highlights --> Customize --> Page Settings --> Show Advanced --> Inherit From, you're given a list of community UUIDs to select from. There is no preview of what you're selecting, so you have no way of evaluating design...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Highlights template selections - need better identification of template

After you've marked certain community Highlights displays as templates, you can inherit the design in other communities. The problem is that the drop down list where you make a selection only lists the UUIDs of the communities, and it doesn't show...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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