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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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Alter default community events view so that the calendar view appears by default for members of a single specific community.

Instead of the default view being the events list, make the Calendar view to appear when switching to the events widget. It should be a community setting to select whether the list view or calendar view is the default.
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Mass for Community Membership and (extra) Following/Unfollowing actions

In case a person wants to leave or join several communities at once, this becomes a cumbersome process with many individual clicks. Especially in organizations which use many small (sub) communities this is a big pain.Please provide an option as p...
about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Integration with Microsoft Stream

I would like to be able to conveniently embed videos uploaded in Microsoft Stream from the Connections Editor. My most common workflow is: I upload a video to MS Stream and then embed it in a Connections blog, wiki or forum. It would be very helpf...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Show file is locked icon when in "Show All" inside Community

In the Overview page in your Community, you can see behind the file a locked-icon. This icon dissapears when you press show all. In the All Files overview, you cannot see if the file is locked or not, you have to open it first.
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Docs Document Templates.

Docs Document Templates. Word, Excel, PowerPoint templates. Create and usage accordingly for new documents based on template
over 1 year ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

Community lifecycle Management

Community lifecycle Management Is a community still up-to-date? Should it be deleted? Archiving?
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Mandatory notifications of ToDos and due dates

Mandatory notifications of ToDos and due dates. Configurable if only as Connections Alert, Mail (even if a user disabled the Mail Notifications) or both.
over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Highlight items in new newsletter (digest) and email notifications layouts: person name, content title, etc.

To improve readability of the new newsletter and email notification design please, please make the topic/post titles and links to topic/blog/etc. more prominent (different color, bold, ...?) as these are really hard to read for our users. Also thi...
about 4 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration