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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Highlights template selections - need better identification of template

After you've marked certain community Highlights displays as templates, you can inherit the design in other communities. The problem is that the drop down list where you make a selection only lists the UUIDs of the communities, and it doesn't show...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.

Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.
about 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Enable or Disable Change Tracking by REST API or a param

As default, Change tracking is disabled, and it is enabled or disabled by Owner through UI only. But most of the time, When a user shared a file to his manager or others to edit ,He hope to enable Change tracking by a rest param , so he can flexib...
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Connections v8.0 reposition or eliminate tags widget in Community Wikis

In the v8.0 UI, stand-alone and community Wikis have 3 column layout, table of contents (left), Wiki body (center), and widgets, i.e. Tags (right). In prior versions, the widgets were under the table of contents on the left side. This allows for t...
over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Enhancement Request - Custom widget with similar functionality to TopNews widget

In ICEC, the TopNews widget uses images and text from a blog post. i.e. similar to a top news story in a newspaper: Image + Headline + Text. When there is an image in a blog that is used by the TopNews widget this works fine. However, if the blog ...
about 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration
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