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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Customer to have links open in new tabs

The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
over 1 year ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review

reinstate Elasticsearch Standalone support for Connections v7+

Customers are forced to setup Kubernetes envoirnments if they want to continue using Metrics & Quicksearch for Connections - v7 & v8 only support Kubernetes-Elasticsearch. For most small customers (<1500 users) Kubernetes deployment is ...
over 2 years ago in  0 Needs Review

Blog Entries Expiry

Hello HCL Connections Offering Management, We would like to request an option to set an expiry date for blog entries. This means that after a specific number of days, such as 30 or 90 days, the blog entry will be automatically deleted. Currentl...
over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page?

Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page? This will facilitate in removing community applications without the extra step of reconfiguring the community start page.
5 months ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Resize Images Thumbnails in Midea Gallery

I´m creating wiht a cusomter a new startpage in HCEC and added to the page a media gallery widget. I tried to verify, checked and tested different thing to get the images bigger, but we couldn't get this done.
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Add Content Translation Features in the Connections Mobile Application

In the web client, users can utilize third-party solutions like Reverso to translate content in HCL Connections: "https://www.corporate-translation.reverso.com/hcl-connections." Please add the same capability to the HCL Connections mobile applica...
5 months ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

Add Sametime Chat Features to the Connections Mobile Application

Our users are missing chat functionality in the HCL Connections mobile application.Please integrate Sametime Chat features directly into the HCL Connections mobile app, as this will significantly enhance user adoption on our site. Many other colla...
5 months ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

Share a file with expiry date.

Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
about 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Right click on any place of the Community card, it should display open Community in new tab

On Communities List. if right click on a Community name, it shows "Open Link in New Tab". However, when right click on some other place of the Community card, it shows "Open Image in New Tab". Need "Open Link in New Tab" while right click on Commu...
5 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Keep community logo at original resolution

The image uploaded as a community logo gets resized to fit in 110x110 square. Requesting alternate handling to maintain original resolution
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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