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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02. Communities

    Update the Owner of the Community to a Group name.

    Use Case: Customer is using the HCL connections product, and they have communities created inside HCL Connections products. The user with the owner and administrator privileges for these communities have left the organization and their account fro...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

    The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    External Access to Existing communties

    Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    New community layout template

    When using the template "3 columns with menu on top and banner" the individual columns are quire narrow. Our users are asking for a similar template which contains underneath menu bar and banner only two columns: a broader column on the left hand ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists

    Publish updates in several communities at once

    When posting an update/ publishing news it would be nice to be able to do so in several communities at once
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

    When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
    about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Ability to disable certain widgets within Highlights

    Requesting the ability to control the display for Highlights widgets via a configuration parameter. We would like to disable, for example, the "iFrame" widget across all communities so that it is not displayed as a choice.
    about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Community Customization

    All pages in the community should be customizable like "Highlights Page". Another option is the possibility to organize the pages in the menu area as well as disable the pages "Overview, Recent Updates, Status Updates". In my opnion, the Recent Up...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Hope: Only community owner (admin) can edit/delete files and folders, all members can only view and upload

    Currently Community Files and folders have below two roles: Editor: (Share, upload, and edit community files and folders) Reader: (Share, view files and folders in this community) Customer hope below function: Only community owner (admin) can edit...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Allow admins to choose which user gets associated with a community in search results

    The person who creates a community will permanently be associated with the community as the original community creator. Search results that display communities display the community creator without any additional context. If the community creator ...
    about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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