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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    Extend/deactivate Auto-Completition-Period of Activities in Connections Cloud

    Activities within Connections Cloud are automatically marked as complete by the Activities Administrator after the default Auto-Completion-Period of 90 days. Whilst it is possible to modify this value on prem, there is no current possibility to ed...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance ideation blogs with status field

    An idea in the ideation blog should have a customizable field for the status: in review, validating, rejected, will be implemented and so on. It should also be possible to assign an idea for review to a person with some kind of dead line. Open, re...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Increase the Max Size of a single Wiki page (currently 1024kb)

    Requesting that the size for a single wiki article be increased beyond the 1024kb limit.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Already Exists

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

    Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Develop redirect-Activities API for Activities PLus

    Activities Plus / Boards is a great addon to Connections, but companies have developed own tools/custumization to the "old" activities based on the REST API. With Activities Plus there is a new API which means reprogramming all the other internal ...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

    Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

    A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Blog permalinks should point directly to the reply that it was copied from

    Permalinks in replies to comments on a blog post should point directly to the specific reply that the link was copied from. Instead, it points to the initial comment in the thread. This makes permalinks in a blog less useful, especially in extende...
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Created a peer should be next to the topic which I right click "Create Peer"

    Inside Wikis, right click on a topic and select "Create Peer". Then you can create a new Wikis page. However, the new wikis page is created at the bottom. For example, you have following wikis pages: Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 If you want to create a ne...
    12 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement
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