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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    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.
    9 months ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 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

    Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

    Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
    over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Connections v8.0 reposition or eliminate tags widget in Community Wikis

    In the v8.0 UI, stand-alone and community Wikis have 3 column layout, table of contents (left), Wiki body (center), and widgets, i.e. Tags (right). In prior versions, the widgets were under the table of contents on the left side. This allows for t...
    over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    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" ...
    about 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 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

    Add Connections content to HCLSoftware U

    Please add Connections content to HCLSoftware U. Connections is really versatile, we need extensive examples / howto's / best practices / certification Because the posibilities are endless, starting users would immensely benefit from more examples...
    over 1 year ago in 14. Documentation 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...
    about 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review
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