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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    Customizer - Additional Global Menu

    We would like to have an option to add an additional "global" menu, which can be added and modified via customizer. It should be located in the Header Area, on the left side between the logo and the search. It should be possible to add additional ...
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Multiple helm charts use hardcoded ports for the service definition

    When deploying multiple instances of the connections component pack on the same Kubernetes cluster in different namespaces, you find that several ports are hardcoded inside the helm charts. The provided helm charts must be modified by hand to chan...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Make Wiki URLs Immutable

    As a connections user, I want to be able to change the title of a Wiki entry without the link to it changing, so that I can add permanent links to it from other parts of Connections or the company intranet. Suggested solution: Change the URL addre...
    11 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Ability to disable More menu or custom submenu item from displaying on main level

    The "More" menu in the lefthand navigation pane contains the apps that do not display at the main level. After clicking an option on the "More" menu, the selection will display at the top level until a different "More" selection gets clicked. Simi...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Add mobile number to show in directory search results

    Modifying the searchResults.ftl will only change the results for Advance search. It will a big help if there is a way to add the mobile number as part of the profiles directory search result.
    over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Passwort Reset Link One Time Use

    Password Reset Link received in emails can be used more than once. Admins should be able to have control over this, and even enable a one time password reset link.
    almost 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Change default icon for application in Highlights

    Please add a way to customize how the application widget icons. There is a parameter in widgets-config.xml, but it does not help change the icon for application in Highlights. example of script: <widgetDef defId="label.customization.comm...
    about 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 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 ...
    about 3 years ago in  0 Needs Review

    Improve how the comment title is shown embedded experience

    When a user comments in a status update and it is opened in the Embedded Experience in Connections homepage, the comment title gets truncated.
    about 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    The ability to chose the extension of an exported profile photo

    In Connections V8, if exporting Profiles photos by using dump_photos_to_files.sh , the exported photos are with ".dat" format, this can be only used to import to another Profile database. Need Connections to have the ability to export Profile phot...
    6 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review
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