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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Disable compression for Thumbnails in mediagalery

Pictures uploaded and used as a thumbnails in media gallery looks to be in lower quality. As software do this as an optimization process, is there a way to disable the compression for Thumbnails in media gallery
5 days ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Changing "Request to Join this Community" to something like "Joining Request had been sent" after sumbited joining requst

When request to join a moderated community, user sumbit joining request by clicking "Request to Join this Community". After request was submitted, the "Request to Join this Community" would still be displayed. "Request to Join this Community" shou...
20 days ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Implement Community template not just for post-TE deployment but should include pre-existing communities as well

I noticed back in 2018 that I had a similar idea regarding Community templates, specifically this one: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-255 As stated in your product documentation: https://help.hcl-software.com/connec...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
4 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Capability to align users horizontally when using People Selector Widget

When adding users to the People Selector Widget, the users are listed / aligned vertically. There is not an option to list / align the users horizontally.
3 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

improve the maximum files displayed for Files list and Folders widgets

Hello HCL Connections offering management, I would like to bring to your attention the product documentations provided for your product. Specifically, I am referring to the following links: - https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connect...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Embed a video file in a blog

Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
8 months ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review

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 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Add setting to not show sub Communities in My Communities

Please allow a server setting to filter out sub communities from hte My Community list. For some users this is confusing depending how they work with Communities and sub communities. Having a server wide settings would be beneficial
about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review
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