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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Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Allow pronunciation file in Connections user profile to be played in browser

After uploading a pronunciation file to the Pronunciation tab in the Connections profile save and go to the profile page. Click on the speaker icon next to the user name to get the pronunciation file. When clicking on it it downloads immediately w...
almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 4 Future Consideration

Add social media widgets

To add the social media channels our customers are using a third party tool like elfsight or others. Our customers are complaining about that the competing products like sharepoint have an option (widget) where social media channels can be configu...
about 1 month ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

On-prem support for Outlook Add-in using OIDC configured with Keycloak

Requesting support for using the on-premises Outlook Add-in with Keycloak OIDC
11 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

Adding option to "Accept or Decline" a request to join a moderated community in Homepage Top Updates

If a user requests to join a moderated community, the owner of the community can only accept or decline the request in Latest Updates. This option is also helpful if it is added to Homepage Top Update/Activity Stream.
12 months ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
almost 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

TinyMCE: @Mentions be available in all applications including Rich content app

Not all Connections apps support @Mentions in every editor context. Rich content and community description are examples. The provided functiobality should be consitent over all apps
over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

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 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Make "Files Folder Tree" scalable

With us, the question and the desire to scale up the folder structure in the Files application always comes up. This is possible in the Wikis application since Version 6CR5. Users can move the left navigation bar independently of the actual wiki c...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration
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