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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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Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
over 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 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...
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Help Application Display Language

As of now the HCL Connections Help application does not have a default language setting, nor does it change according to the "preferred language" browser setting of users. Please enhance the Help application to: 1) Allow changes of the default lan...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Help button in the left navigation bar of Connections to open the topic of where the user is currently at

Requesting OM to consider changing how the Help button found on the left navigation works on Connections 8. When the Help button is clicked it should open a pop-up information about the current application where the user is at.
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
over 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
about 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

uid to show in Directory Search

Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
over 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Wikis Collapsible Table of Contents

When a table of contents is created in a wiki page with headers that have sub-headers, all of the content is statically displayed on the page. This can take up a lot of space if there is a lot of content. It would be nice if it were possible to co...
almost 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review