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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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Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Automatic Synnchronization for Supplement user data for Profiles

The Department table should be updated automatically without a manual process via CSV file, for this as per below article https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/install/r_prof_fill-tables.html?query=populate_department
over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Use Bookmarks to create shorten links

Bookmarks is a great feature, but it needs to be extend. The possibility to create Shorten Links with bookmarks can bring a create feature to connections. Those links could be accessed internally or externally. Add some statistics can help users t...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Let Files Widgets Open Links In Same Tab

Files and Files Explorer widgets currently have links with target="_blank". As a result, if the user clicks on a filename, the browser opens a new tab, redirectes the user to the community holding the file and then opens the Docs Viewer. That tak...
over 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Already Exists

Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Forced Password Change in Touchpoint

After a user loggs in CnX the first time he runs through Touchpoint and there he should be forced to change his pwd immediately
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessi...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Ask user to confirm that he is aware that he is uploading to an externally accessible community when using the plugins to upload a file to an external community

There is no differentiation between internal/external communities in the plugins. Therefor users can easily place documents in external communities without realizing they do so. Ideally a user should be prompted (popup with OK/CANCEL) when droppin...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Get calendar app back to Community

It is likely that a lot of users are missing calender funktion in Connections. for the future I suppose there will be only one version of connections, as on-prem. In v6.5, the calendar app or functions, is gone. I supporse ther could be a sort of ...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists