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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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Embed a video file in a blog

Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
5 months ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review

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.
about 2 months ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Orient ME Component Pack - ITM bar old entries cannot be deleted

Hello Dev Team and Offering Management, We would like to ask for a potential enhancement if this can be done sooner. Whenever there are old entry/entries in the ITM bar, let us say that person or employee was deleted or inactivated. The entry for ...
over 2 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Needs Review

Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Preview outlook email (saved as a file in files)

If you create an email from outlook in connections, it is not possible to preview this as you can with word, excel etc. This makes Connections a cumbersome system to use
6 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Files - Ability to set the Maximum File Size for a Single Upload by Using a File Policy

Currently it is only possible to set maximum file size for a single upload globally by modifiying the "files-config.xml" file, as described in the Files Configuration Properties documentation article. Please add the possibility to set the maximum ...
about 2 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Please add sharing files to Groups feature

Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or a community. If user wanted to share a file to a group of people, he had to add person one by one on sharing page which is inconvenient. Please help add sharing a file to a grop...
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

Fix assigning community template admin roles

Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 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.
2 months ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Enhancing User Experience: Removing Tag Cloud for more Space on Wiki Pages

With the release of ConNext in July 2024, wiki page content no longer fits the screen properly due to a tag cloud appearing on the right-hand side. I am seeking a standard setting to hide the tag cloud for all users. In my opinion, the tag cloud i...
5 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review