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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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Add an easy way to add Volt apps to communities

Volt apps could be created by community members and added to the community to increase the value of both systems. Volt apps could then "inherit" the community members (with owner/author/reader status) to control access (for the stages).
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Search in Blog and Wiki combining tags and keywords

Currently it is not possible within a single wiki or blog to search with a combination of tags and keywords. (It is possible in Forums) You can just filter by tags but not do both Example search entries tagged with 'connext' containing the keyword...
almost 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Support Custom German Date Format for Excel Files in Docs Viewer

Docs does not respect the date format (DD.MM.YYYY) in an uploaded Excel file. The date format changes to MM.DD.YYYY How to reproduce: Set OS regional settings, Internet browser and Connections globalization settings to German Create a spreadsheet ...
almost 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

Request to add Crop/Flip/Rotate image editing options to Tiny editors for HCL Connections

In the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections 6.x, (TinyMCE and Textbox.io) the edit image options crop/rotate/flip are not available. Because of this, users are not able to properly edit images. Go into any Connections application such as Wikis, add an...
almost 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

Change URL in blogposts when title is changed

When changing the title of a connect blog post, the URL is not changed. The URL can be changed manually, but the setting is hidden. Often, the title is not changed, which means that you have URLs with "Test", "draft" and a lot of typos. We request...
almost 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

Comeback for Connections Editor (mobile) app

The Connections Editor mobile app went EOS & EOL a while back: https://hclpnpsupport.hcltech.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022237&sys_kb_id=aab7bab71bd9fb4077761fc58d4bcb2d Still it is very useful for many users working mobi...
almost 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

Copy and Paste without possible disable follow function - Desktop Plugin

Is it possible to integrate copy and paste from desktop to desktop plugin. in a separate display it is possible to add follow function or disable follow function. background for this idea is we want to migrate lots of GB Data to Files Applikation ...
almost 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

Integrate Etherpad to work together on Wiki drafts and export them to a Wiki article

Connections is currently very limited in terms of shared work on a document. There's just docs, which require ODT files. Sadly we don't have many advantages of wikis here, mainly versions with diff. Etherpad https://etherpad.org/ is an open source...
almost 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

Add "change summary" to the media-updated newsletter

We got a request from our customer to expand the media-updated newsletter with the field "change summary" you can optionally add when updating a file in Connections. So you directly know the reasons for updating the file without opening it.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Improve mail notifications for Community files

One of our users reported that he doesn't got any notification mails by changed files, altough he's following the community. Following doesn't result in also following on files in the community (e.g. changes on existing files or adding new files)....
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration