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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10. Engagement Center

    HCL Connections Engagement Center (HCEC) - News Slider - Redesign How Additional News Entries are Shown When Larger HCEC Grid Containers are Used

    Dear Team, We have identified a UI/UX issue with the News Slider widget in HCEC when used within larger grid containers. Currently, when the widget is placed in a larger "box," the second news entry appears partially cut off, which negatively impa...
    4 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Assessment

    HCL Connections Engagement Center - News Slider Widget - Arrow Buttons are Taking too Much Space

    Dear Team, I would like to submit an enhancement request regarding the UI of the News Slider widget in the HCL Connections Engagement Center (HCEC). The Problem: When the News Slider widget is placed into the smallest "box" within the HCEC layout/...
    5 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Assessment

    Add the option to set a URL in Rules home page personalization to "allmycommunities" page

    In ICEC Settings > Home Page personalisation > Edit personalization there is an option to select community pages as well as engagement center pages (XCC) but there is no option to redirect users to "all my communites". Sometimes our customer...
    over 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Isolate legacy UI icon selectors from custom CEC container background styles

    When administrators apply color customizations to Engagement Center (CECv1) embedded experience pop-up window—specifically changing the window's top header background color, e.g. black—it uncovers hidden style interactions from legacy product laye...
    3 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Add social media widgets

    To add the social media channels our customers are using a third party tool like elfsight or others. Our customers are complaining about that the competing products like sharepoint have an option (widget) where social media channels can be configu...
    about 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Please improve error page of ICEC on Cloud.

    ICEC on cloud displays error page showing a message "Page (Page ID) cloud not be found." when a user try to access a page which doesn't exist.A same error page is also displayed when a user tries to access a page that the user doesn't have access ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 No Plans to Implement

    Add the option to download the original file in media gallery

    A lot of our customers are asking for an option to be able to download the displayed file in the media gallery widget. At the moment there is only the option to save the displayed file (picture), but this is only resized and there are no option to...
    12 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    CEC News widget - add filter of blog posts with a specific tag

    The common News widgets (list, slider) do not allow to filter Blog posts by a specific tag. They only allow to display a specific blog post or all current blog posts of a community. Please enhance.
    over 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Assessment

    Widget for Watson Workspace

    Would love to connect directly to a Watson Space from a Community. Having a link is not enough. Being capable to interact directly from a Community would be great. Thanks
    about 8 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 4 No Plans to Implement

    Make the format (H1, bold, italic, etc.) from the Blogentry available in the Newswidgets

    The newswidget does not differnciate and shows only plain text, even if there is formated text in the Blogentry. It makes it more difficult to read. Please change and make the format available also in the widgets.
    5 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review
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