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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    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Desktoplugin allow cut and paste into Connections

    Windows allows us to cut and paste files from folder A to folder B. When trying to cut and paste files into connections via the desktopplugin the files are only copied.It would be useful when the plugin allows the cut and paste, removing the origi...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    DELETE Button in Files App for multiple files

    Hello, In the Files application it is not possible to delete multiple files via Web UI. You have to click on the files individually and say "Delete". This is so tiring and not really nice with almost 200 files. Please add a "Delete" button next to...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Assessment

    Other LDAP Posibillities - Azure AD Support.

    At the moment there are only LDAP options such as Active Directory, Domino LDAP, Open LDAP. We would like to have the option of connecting an Azure AD for external users as well.
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Already Exists

    Timestamp for the privacyAndGuidelines Field

    Currently in Connections, there is a timestamp for touchpoint in Unix timestamp format, but not specifically for the privacyAndGuideline field. This means that when new privacyAndGuidelines are configured in touchpoint-config.xml in version 1.3 fo...
    over 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Enable OAuth for Connections Desktop Plugin (onPrem)

    (we should have a category "Desktop Plugin" for ideas) The Connections Desktop Plugin authenticates "separately" with the connections server. OAuth is already supported by Connections mobile both in on-prem and cloud scenarios. This is similarly...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Please Show a list of all communities. ALL! not only public

    See all communities on the web interface. Not only public communities but also moderated and restricted! The Link: https://connections-host/communities/service/atom/communities/all show only Public Communities.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop plugin should support LongPathsEnabled under Win10

    Customer is using Windows 10, and has the LongPathsEnabled REGKEYenable. In OS, they are able to create long paths. Therefore customer requests to add support Win10 extended paths using LongPathsEnabled.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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