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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04. Profiles

    Pasting of URL which contains tags as search results redirects users to the user profiles

    After doing "All Content" search from the user profile and copied the URL of this, then share it to another user, the other user will be redirected to the user profile page instead of the search results page. This also happens when you clear brows...
    11 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    A notification or mail will be sent on birthdays

    You should receive a notification or e-mail if the person has a birthday to follow.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

    All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

    Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

    There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
    almost 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    The ability to chose the extension of an exported profile photo

    In Connections V8, if exporting Profiles photos by using dump_photos_to_files.sh , the exported photos are with ".dat" format, this can be only used to import to another Profile database. Need Connections to have the ability to export Profile phot...
    12 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Profile picture upload dialog confuses people due to the rectangular instead of circled resizing

    The profile pictures are round and not rectangular any more. If a user uploads a new profile picture the preview is still rectangular which confuses people and makes it impossible to find the perfect fit as the image is displayed round after savin...
    almost 8 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    uid to show in Directory Search

    Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
    about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Blog Link Field in My Profile requires specific formatting not listed in our documentation

    Customer would like some guide or restriction to what the correct formatting and expected entry is for the Blog Link in My Profile for future releases. We were able to test a workaround and added the prefix of the URL with just www. , it seems aft...
    about 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Search person by telephone number

    I got a telephone call from someone I do not have in my contat list. Now I do not know how to find who called me. It would be helpful to have the Option of searching by telephone number, like a phonebook. Thanks
    almost 8 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Already Exists

    Add (private) notes to a contact / profile

    Like in XING I would like to be able to add private notes to a contact. For example when I have met this person, what we did together etc. I have a lot of contacts and it is hard to remember how I am linked to a person.
    about 8 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration
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