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

    Build option to remove and reorder apps in a community in Connections 7

    In Connections 7 the new community homepage is the Highlights page. This page does not allow you to remove apps from the community (which was possible with the overview page) . It only allows you to remove the widget from the highlights page but t...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

    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
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Assessment

    Notification if File/Folder deleted

    Get a e-mail notification as community owner if someone deletes a file or folder!
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Change the default number of communities loading in Communities catalog page

    Communities catalog page renders only 10 communities at initial load. The card view has 4 communities per row, and with current setting 2 rows are rendered in full and the third row is rendered in half, with 2 communities. It would look better if ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    External Users should be able to use the "My Notes" Widget within a external community

    We notice that an External Users can not take notices in the "My Notes" Widget but we would request to make this feature working for external users. This feature is popular with our internal users and should be used by a large number of external u...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Assessment

    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...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Adding new members to Moderated communities

    Nowadays when a new user is interested in joining a Community, they send a request which shows up in the notifications of the owners, when you click on this notification the next screen is the main page of the community of interest, then you have ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

    Option to export all participants of an event

    At the moment on our Connections 5.5 onprem system as well as in the Connections Social Cloud there is no feature or option to export the participants list of an community event. Via API calls we can develop a simple workaround but it would be nic...
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add ability to create a Folder Link to a Community Folder inside Activities

    Behavior when attempting to Create a Folder Link vs Creating a File Link are different. Folder Link does not give the option to link a folder that is contained within the same Community. Files Link does allow for linking of file contained within s...
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Additional role “readers” for Community members

    Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration
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