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.

For more information and upcoming events, please visit our HCL Connections page.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Ideas

    Showing 466 of 1929

    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
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

    Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

    Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    Need Navigation Panel function in Docs document

    If a Word document is with many pages inside it, Navigation Panel will help end user to quick locate the specific section. End user from Lenovo box claims this function for several times. Customer needs Docs to have the same feature MS Word has.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Under Consideration

    Ensure that all Connections Docs formatting functions are compatible with CTRL+C and CTRL+V copy and paste functions

    Please create an enhancement request to ensure that all Connections, Spreadsheet and Presentation formatting functions, including the ones listed below, are compatible with CTRL+C and CTRL+V copy and paste functions: There are many types of format...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Video preview plays videos without sound (muted)

    uploaded video by default has the volume muted. Customer would like the ability to set the default volume of uploaded video content.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    HTML5 Directory Upload for Connections in Browser

    Current state:Currently, using the browser interface users can only upload individual files to Connections. Users are able to select multiple files for upload, but not a whole directory or multiple subdirectories for upload. Enable uploading of Di...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    HCL Connections Desktop Plugin for DocsCorp

    The plugin gives you the option to save files from Word, Excel, Power Point directly in Connections. It would be super cool if DocsCorp also had the opportunity. Select files from communities, edit them in Docs Corp and save them back to the commu...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

    How to Automatically update Community Name Folder locally when the name changes in Connections

    When changing the Community Name in Connections, the only way to change the name in the Connections Plugin is to do it manually. How to do this change automatically?
    8 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review
                                        Copyright © 2025 HCLSoftware Limited