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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    Multi-Layer SubCommunities

    As of now there is no way yet to create a subcommunity for a subcommunity. You can only create a subcommunity [Child] for a Community [Parent]. https://help.hcl-software.com/connections/latest/user/communities/c_com_create_subcommunity.html Havin...
    6 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    User Selfregistration (invite) with calculated values for UID

    Please make it possible to allow for a calculated value for UID on self creation. For example UUID V4, or even better to allow to inject custom javascript so the customers own logic can be written. Is it possible to use calculated strings in the s...
    over 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment

    Touchpoint - Enable Supported UI Customization for Touchpoint

    Description Currently, there is no official, supported mechanism to customize the User Interface (UI) design of the HCL Connections Touchpoint application. While the core Connections platform offers extensive theming and modification capabilities ...
    8 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Touchpoint - Configurable Redirection URL Upon Wizard Completion

    Description / Idea: Currently, upon completion of the Touchpoint onboarding wizard, users are redirected to the standard HCL Connections Homepage application (/homepage) by default.There is currently no supported configuration option to change thi...
    8 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Make the navigation header for 7.0 works for 8.0

    We are aware that with the new update 8.0, most of the navigation elements have been moved to the side. We are currently searching for solutions to either customize the navigation menu or have the option of using a custom navigation header, simila...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Drag and Drop from Connections Plugin for Windows Explorer to IBM Verse or Others

    Today is not possible to drag and drop a file or folder from Connections Plugin for Windows Explorer (Not my drive) to an email for example in IBM Verse. It is mandatory to add the file in my drive before a drag and drop. It is not user friendly.
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Already Exists

    Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

    Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Automatic table of contents in Wiki pages

    The possibility to create an automatic table of contents in Wiki pages. Currently it is so that the parent wiki page remains empty. You have to manually create a link to each child wiki page that leads to the child wiki page. This is very complica...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    A way to display users who were assigned with they specifc Files policy

    Need a way(An API or a command) to dislay users who were assigned with the specific Files policy.
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Desktop Plug-in file locked status is displayed incorrectly

    When user closes a file that has been locked, the status of the file in desktop plugin windows explorer remains locked even if the file has been unlocked. Users need to refresh the windows explorer to change the state of the file. It would be help...
    11 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review
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