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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Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Copy an existing community incl. all members

It would be helpful if a user would have the following options / choice when copying an existing community: copy with all members / copy without existing members. Currently all members need to be added manually once a community has been duplicated.
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

Working with multible Connections instances

When working with multible Connections instances, for example one is in the cloud, one is hosted by us and one is hosted by a partner company, it is hard for users to differentiate bewtween these 3 instance. Give the users a interface where infor...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

A notification or mail will be sent on birthdays

You should receive a notification or e-mail if the person has a birthday to follow.
over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

ICEC - Enhance Configuration of News Widget

News widget allows to specify the numbers of items shown. In case of multiple channels, the lastet published # items from all channels are shown. In case of multiple channels that vary in the frequency how often news are published this has a downs...
over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration

Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community

Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Delete Member with an csv file.

Add the possibility to delete members from a Community or SubCommunity with names (Mail adresses) in a CSV-File. Like for the import function.
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Integration of other web chat clients like Skype for Business

Currently, only Sametime version 9 can be integrated into HCL Connections. It would be fantastic if you could also integrate other web chat clients in Connections with presence display. Examples would be Skype for Business, Rocketchat.
over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Notification requirements

More notification settings. For example, if a new blog post was created in a community, I would also like to receive a browser notification, not just email notifications.
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration
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