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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    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name, no additional metadata such as the community it belongs to.I definitely see the value in having the additional data since some content may be app...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Change Community access after creation - Allow people from outside of my organization to become members of this community

    Would save time and effort if you can change access to an existing Community to allow external users access.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Files section cursor

    In the "Files" section, when moving the cursor over "All Community Files" instead of turning into a pointer as it does with "Community Folders", it becomes a text cursor (bracket). Same for "Trash". While not impossible to use, users who are not f...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    Multiple Calendars for Communities

    Hello, I believe it´s not already possible to have multiple calendars within a Connections community. If there is a way, could you please provide me an answer to how? and if not, I believe it would be a good addition.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

    There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a more extensive authorization concept for Communities

    In our company we merged SharePoint and Confluence into Connections. Now our users are complaining because both tools had a much more advanced authorization management which can not be reproduced with Communities. For example with Confluence it wa...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search API should have have same results as Connections search

    e.g. Search via Search API should consider that hidden community blogs (of deleted communities) cannot be found --> same behavior as in Connections search.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Possibility to get notified if a user starts downloading a lot of data

    Customer suggests to consider the possibility to get a notification as an admin or at least to see it in a log file or whatever if some internal users are downloading big data from communities? What I'm thinking about is something similar to the d...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Make files actionable by using activities and relations

    When working with files, it would be VERY helpful if you could do a simple thing: Connect files to activities right in the file preview right panel. Therefor I recommend another tab called relations where you can do this: add relations between fi...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    A way to add email from Verse to activity

    Today is possible to add email from Verse to a Blog, but during normal operation it's normal to want to add an email to an activty
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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