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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Add social media widgets

To add the social media channels our customers are using a third party tool like elfsight or others. Our customers are complaining about that the competing products like sharepoint have an option (widget) where social media channels can be configu...
3 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

Implement Community template not just for post-TE deployment but should include pre-existing communities as well

I noticed back in 2018 that I had a similar idea regarding Community templates, specifically this one: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-255 As stated in your product documentation: https://help.hcl-software.com/connec...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Add the option to set a URL in Rules home page personalization to "allmycommunities" page

In ICEC Settings > Home Page personalisation > Edit personalization there is an option to select community pages as well as engagement center pages (XCC) but there is no option to redirect users to "all my communites". Sometimes our customer...
5 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Needs Review
192 VOTE

Mark Community as Inactive/Read Only

Frequently communities and sub communities are used to support projects. As soon as the project ends there shall be no new contents within this community. At the very moment Connections does not allow to set this community to read only. Please int...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

Allow SVG to work with TinyMCE Editor

Is there a way for HCL to support SVG when writing content with SVG elements through the Rich Content widget when using TinyMCE Editor? I am sure you're all aware of this issue, but I dont understand why its not being implemented. I have heard fro...
10 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

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

User Selfregistration (invite) with calculated values for UID

Please make it possible to allow for a calculated value for UID on self creation. For example UUID V4, or even better to allow to inject custom javascript so the customers own logic can be written. Is it possible to use calculated strings in the s...
6 months ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment
143 VOTE

@mention a Community or Groups in order to notify all members or groups

Allow users to (at)mention communities in order to notify a big group of people/teams. Currenlty only mentioning of people is allowed.
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 10 Future Consideration
132 VOTE

Move content from one community into another

It would be great to be able to move any content page (wiki page, blog entry, forum entry, activity... whatever) from one Community into another. Our users sometimes create content in a place where it is not intended to be. Currently there is no o...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration
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