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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

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Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

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

Invite feature does not work with UTF-8 Names

While using the invite feature, if you use some UTF-8 Characters it does not work. Please enhance this. We have customers which are not IT engineers, they do not care about encoding. For us, this is a complete show stopper. For example encode th...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Full Interoperability between Connections Events and Outlook Meeting

Currently ConNext events can only be imported via ics or copy from feed in one's Outlook Calendar. Both have the drawback that you don't get informed in case of update of the original event. Moreover you might forget to set a reminder. Also impo...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

ICXT - PDF export of tables to handle Landscape format

ICXT could only handle "Portrait" format, and no Landscape. This is because HCXT leverages open source tool wkhtmltopdf for PDF exporting. The wkhtmltopdf tool exports html content to portrait orientation by default. The idea for this new idea is ...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Ability for external users to follow communities

External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration