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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Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

Abliity to change the external share status of a file after upload

Currently, you can only decide if a file should be allowed to be shared externally during upload. If you change your mind, you should be able to change this in the UI as an owner of a file
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

Profile Pictures Not Displaying in iPhone's Native Email App

Profile images in emails generated by HCL Connections are not visible in iPhone's native email app via Traveler, as well as in the HCL Verse app and Notes, while they are displayed correctly in Verse Web. This occurs because Connections includes p...
6 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

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...
9 months ago in 02. Communities 2 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
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Werkt voor geen meter op een virtuele desktop

Met een virtuele desktop die iedere keer opnieuw geïnitialieerd wordt, verdwijnt de HCL connections-sync entry uit de Verkenner. De echte sync directory onder mijn user ID blijft wel bestaan maar wordt niet meer gesynct. Zet álle info in het Windo...
3 months ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

External user access cannot be restricted

When you add external users in HCL Connections, you are unable to restrict their access. Specifically, it is not possible to provide read-only access to external users once they have been added to HCL Connections. This limitation poses a security ...
3 months ago in  0 Needs Review

Consistent customization over all applications

It is a real pain to change the UI to any Corporate Identity because WebSphere Apps use different UI elements than Component Pack ones. All “integrated” apps like Invite, Touchpoint, Tailored Experience Wizard, ICXT/HCXT, HCEC need handcrafted adj...
over 2 years ago in 13. Other 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
9 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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