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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    When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

    In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
    about 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Community description defined on a community template should be inherited on newly created communities

    A newly created community should contain the community description defined on a community template or customers should have the option to obtain the description defined in the template.
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Customize the Tailored Experience

    Customer would like to have the ability to customize the Tailored Experience. (We need to change the font and CSS in the Create Community page for the application)
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Windows Desktop plugin file search option

    When using the desktop plugin integration from Windows File explorer and try to search for a file in Connections files you can only use this form of search sentence : PartOfFilename* and not *artOfFilename* to find files. When you use the search i...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make Wiki URLs Immutable

    As a connections user, I want to be able to change the title of a Wiki entry without the link to it changing, so that I can add permanent links to it from other parts of Connections or the company intranet. Suggested solution: Change the URL addre...
    over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Assessment

    Short Community links shall be editable

    In a Community-> Advanced Access Features you can provide a short name for short/ nice community link Unfortunately you can not edit this property if the community has subcommunities. This is a partially implemented/ not finished feature to m...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Synchronize data's between OnPrem Domino Directory and Connections Cloud Profile in both directions

    Customer wants to have the option to sync information from a Connections Cloud Profiles business card back to their OnPrem directory.
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    allow resize the left sidebar also for community files

    For community files we need the possibility to resize the left sidebar. Sometimes the Folder names are long and the user only see a part of the folder name and .... This is not very user friendly. The feature to resize the left sidebar (navigation...
    almost 8 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Keep community logo at original resolution

    The image uploaded as a community logo gets resized to fit in 110x110 square. Requesting alternate handling to maintain original resolution
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Delete the notification in "Recent updates" when a blogpost is edited and saved as a draft

    There is a notification appearing in "recent updates" when someone edits and saves an existing blogpost as a draft. When you delete an existing blogpost, there is no notification informing about this action, which totally makes sense. It should wo...
    over 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review
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