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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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Include additional details within Community Metrics

When accessing a Connections Cloud Community's metrics participation -> number of visits "show chart" view the "Community Overall Total" isn't always the total of the community components displayed. Requesting that all community components metr...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Ability for external users to follow communities

External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration
137 VOTE

@mention a community in order to notify all members

Allow users to (at)mention communities in order to notify a big group of people/teams. Currenlty only mentioning of people is allowed.
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 10 Future Consideration
189 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...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

Community blog: 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.
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 8 Future Consideration

Sametime integration

Allow easy, out of box, server-side integration between Connections and Sametime onprem. All names shall be decorated with online presence indicator and there should be a “who is online” widget in communities.
almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Future Consideration

Accept/decline community invitations from within the notification

"When a Connections user is invited to a community they should be able to accept/decline from within the invitation notification email, or be redirected to a page where the accept/decline options are clear. "Also, the Connections Administrator sho...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Setting owners of subcommunity independent of parent community.

We want to set the owners of subcommunity who is not owners of parent community. In the current design, the owners of subcommunity must be owners of parent community.
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Support Rich HTML (& CSS) for Activity Streams

REQUEST: Support a richer set of HTML & CSS for Activity Streams to be at par competitively. For example, products like HipChat and Slack and other activity stream type apps support this. JUSTIFICATION: Perception and eye-candy is core and val...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration