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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    Allow for the default configuration of file folders to be sorted only by name

    Change the default behavior of Folders so they are sorted by name
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Preview option for all versions of a file in Files Application

    Currently we have "Download , Restore and Delete" options for older versions of files in "Files" applications. We would need "Preview" option also for all versions of a file.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    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 (Accessibl...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Sametime Meetings and Docs Integration

    When you are editing a document on docs sometime you need to talk to other people. HCL Docs should have an action to start a meeting using Sametime Meetings, this away it's possible to connect the people to develop a document.
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Future Consideration

    Most Used/followed Tags

    Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Improve general performance of the connections web application

    Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with textbox.io

    Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the textbox.io editor. If you edit a wiki page and click on + icon the "Bookmark" button is not available but exists in blogs, forums, etc. Our users request it. The users need the functionality ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    CentOS Support

    Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists

    Make My Drive, All Files and Folders available in every Windows Save and Open Dialog

    Only certain applications see the Connections My Drive and Connections Cloud options in the Save and Open dialog boxes. When these don't appear in an application, you cannot save or open files directly in the application with Connections. Adobe pr...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

    Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

    In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
    about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration
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