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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127 VOTE

A Real Administration Console

A complete and userfriendly administration console. With some features such as : - List of all communities with owner, members, creation date, last access date, last updated date, size. - List of all profiles with status active inactive, communiti...
about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 10 Under Consideration

Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
4 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
119 VOTE

Link Shortening

Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

Services Status Page for Monitoring

This idea suggests to introduce a HTTP status page for all Connections services. This status page will enhance and simplify service monitoring and load balancing on the infrastructure level. If Connections is configured for Federated Authenticatio...
5 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
113 VOTE

Bridge the gap between Connections and Domino.

Make the integration seamless and awesome. For browser, Notes, Verse and mobile. Period.
about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration

Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Trackbacking to display preview or full content of original blog post

Whenever someone tries to use Trackback function for a blog post, a preview / the full content of it should be displayed, and not just the title of the blog post.
26 days ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Spreadsheet to automatically filter all data including empty spaces in between data

When you automatically filter data in a column, it would only filter all the data until the first blank space of the column. This behavior is different from openoffice where it can filter all data even if there are blank spaces in between. (WPS Sp...
about 2 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

Community: Option to notify all community members

When using "Notify other people" in a community blog there is no option to select all community members. Instead you would have to tick evey single member. That is very cumbersome.
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 9 Future Consideration

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals.

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals. If this were present in the native product, we would no longer need our FileNet deployment.
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration
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