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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 for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
about 1 year ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

The "Tag" widget should default to condensed mode

In Connections 8, The "Tag" widget will by default shown in expand mode, but this take sup usefeul space , which forces the user to scroll to see the contents of a page.
9 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Community description defined on a community template should be inherited on newly created communities

A newly created community should contain the community description defined on a community template or customers should have the option to obtain the description defined in the template.
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Modernizing the Calendar (Event) Widget

User Interface (UI) Design: Consider a clean, intuitive, and responsive design. Bootstrap, Material Design, or other modern UI frameworks can be helpful. Event Display: Use a modern card-based layout or a timeline view for events to enhance user e...
about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Delete the notification in "Recent updates" when a blogpost is edited and saved as a draft

There is a notification appearing in "recent updates" when someone edits and saves an existing blogpost as a draft. When you delete an existing blogpost, there is no notification informing about this action, which totally makes sense. It should wo...
almost 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Blogs "Add a Comment" button to open automatically

Currently in the Connections Blogs application, to comment on a blog post, you have to click on "Add a Comment" button, which then opens the form "Comment on this Entry". Only then can users enter the text to comment on a post. Is there a HCL Conn...
9 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

ICXT - PDF export of tables to handle Landscape format

ICXT could only handle "Portrait" format, and no Landscape. This is because HCXT leverages open source tool wkhtmltopdf for PDF exporting. The wkhtmltopdf tool exports html content to portrait orientation by default. The idea for this new idea is ...
about 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Automatically Removing disengaged memebers from a community

Is there a way to identify and remove automatically members of a community who are non active, meaning not visiting or updating the community for a given time frame?
5 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
over 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review