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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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02. Communities

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Accept/decline community invitations from within the notification

"When a Connections user is invited to a community they should be able to accept/decline from within the invitation notification email, or be redirected to a page where the accept/decline options are clear. "Also, the Connections Administrator sho...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

"Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app

I tested this on Connections 6.0 environment and community owners are able to see the "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app.This behavior changed in version 7.0 but our users are still using the old Overview page as commu...
about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Needs Clarification

Make COMMUNITY VIEWER a Permanent Community Feature in Connections!

Community Viewer Allows end users to See All the Communities they Follow or Belong to, and to organize All their communities by in grid or list form, to be able to access your Most needed, and to quickly Launch to a specific area in the Community-...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 20 Future Consideration

Fix assigning community template admin roles

Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Community Bookmarks should have a "open in new window" option

To be sure to stay in your current context, community bookmarks should not only have the option to be important, they should also be allowed to be opened in a new window/tab so the community view stays available for you.
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to sta...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

External community members should also get notifications

Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

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...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Don't show restricted communities where you are NOT a member in Community Overview

It is possible that somebody creates a restricted community and checks the option to show community name to the organisation. If you where a member in the past for that community, but not anymore, you still see the community in "My Communitie...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Allow community files to be shared across multiple community folders

There is a documented limitation that indicates "you can put a community owned file in only one community folder." This is inconsistent with personal files which allow files to be shared with multiple folders. Allowing a community file to be share...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration