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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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Support Notify for all content types

All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cre...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Change Invite process and possibilities into a more manageable service.

In order to get a better understanding about your invited external users, there is a need for change in that process. Optional choice of security: Disallow all users to invite externals, except for those with the rights to do so. ( Like with Commu...
almost 5 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Future Consideration

Adding new members to Moderated communities

Nowadays when a new user is interested in joining a Community, they send a request which shows up in the notifications of the owners, when you click on this notification the next screen is the main page of the community of interest, then you have ...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

Transfer of WIKIs

Transfering WIKI-Pages from users HOME into a WIKI of a community is just possible with cut & paste for a 'normal' user. Why not 'right click' on the high-Level WIKI-Page and choosing 'COPY' ? Going into the WIKI of the community, 'right click...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

Rename Pinned to Favorites in Files

The "Pinned" term is confusing and incorrect. A pinned item usually refers to something that is automatically shown at the top of the list (like it is used in forums for instance) but in Files "Pinned" files are listed in a separate view. This beh...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Make locked files more visible

Locked files have an icon indicating it in the list view and the custom view only. If a externally shared file is locked, there's no indicator in the grid view. Only the yellow link appears. If a file is locked, it should be more visible. Maybe so...
about 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

Change the default number of communities loading in Communities catalog page

Communities catalog page renders only 10 communities at initial load. The card view has 4 communities per row, and with current setting 2 rows are rendered in full and the third row is rendered in half, with 2 communities. It would look better if ...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

Additional role “readers” for Community members

Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Add an option to collapse a blog to a title and summary view vs all entries being expanded inline

For Connections (Cloud) blogs, there should be a way to collapse the blog entries so you could more easily see the headings (titles) and expand only the entry that you want to read at the time. For example: Blog title1 Short summary, perhaps th...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration