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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    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Allow selection of commnuity application during creation

    When talking to end users that struggle using connections, it is mostly because they are overwhlemed when entering a community because it has too many apps and they don't need all. As the decision on what apps are added by default is system wide, ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Customizer adds javascript at default place

    When we create a customizer app to include a javascript. The customizer adds the javascript file at the end of the page, by default! However, there is no configuration option available to control where the javascript is included i.e either in t...
    almost 2 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    anchor option back in Wiki and Activities

    The anchor opties used to be in wiki and Activities. With an update of Tiny editor(early 2020), they where removed. Our users do miss that option.
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Needs Review

    change mail-service deployment in Component Pack

    The documentation https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/admin/install/c_OM_install_starter_stacks.html?hl=mail-service tells us, that Orient Me needs the deployment mail-service (pod). Suggestion, change the mail-service deployment, so that th...
    almost 4 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    support for underscore inside bookmark URL

    At the moment URL containing _ (Underscore) in the domain name cannot be accepted as a bookmark in Connections. But there are several websites that do have underscores - e.g. HCL Notes and Domino wiki (https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com ) Supporting...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Modify date range of Status Update Search result

    It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
    almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Highlights page navigation menu in communities

    Hi guys, The option to use the wiki as a navigation structure is one of the strong features of the Highlights page. However... The way it is currently styled is looking pretty clunky and unprofessional... Without asking for any major updates her.....
    almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Request to add Crop/Flip/Rotate image editing options to Tiny editors for HCL Connections

    In the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections 6.x, (TinyMCE and Textbox.io) the edit image options crop/rotate/flip are not available. Because of this, users are not able to properly edit images. Go into any Connections application such as Wikis, add an...
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review
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