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 user to be restricted to only one Community

    Ability to restrict a user to only view a single community
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Save users credential using ADFS x Web Form Authentication on Desktop Plugin

    Use ADFS authentication with Web Form Authentication on Desktop Plugin in so that the user doesn't have to provide the internet address every time the desktop is initialized
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop plug-in does not indicate that a file has been locked

    Once a file has been locked, there is no warning for the user. Actually, there is no way how to check whether a file is locked or unlocked - there is no status message and the pop-up menu shows both the lock and unlock options - at least in Mac OS...
    almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Hide Desktop Plugin for Windows icon option during installation

    Add an option to hide Desktop Plugin icon for Windows during installation process.
    almost 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Integrate Etherpad to work together on Wiki drafts and export them to a Wiki article

    Connections is currently very limited in terms of shared work on a document. There's just docs, which require ODT files. Sadly we don't have many advantages of wikis here, mainly versions with diff. Etherpad https://etherpad.org/ is an open source...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    Connections calendar synchronization

    Possibility to synchronize an event (calendar) between several Connections communities. For example, after creating event in community we should have option of sharing/sync with other communities
    almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Highlights page navigation menu in communities

    Hi guys, The option to use the wiki as a navigation structure is one of the strong features of the Highlights page. However... The way it is currently styled is looking pretty clunky and unprofessional... Without asking for any major updates her.....
    almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Search in forum AND filter topics by "open questions" or "answered questions"

    Currently it is not possible to search in a forum AND filter the topics by 'open questions' or 'answered questions'. It would be great to add this possibility to the search (both by UI and URL)
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Open to-do lists when several people are assigned

    If a to-do is created and several people are assigned, this to-do remains in my "open task list" even if I have done my part. Is it possible to provide a real "open to-do" list with my open items only and filter out group to-dos that have been com...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Handles of sub-communities usable only in conjunction with main community handles

    Handles to a subcommunity can only be used in conjunction with the handle to the main community. I find this behavior surprising. Example: This community https://<hostname>/communities/service/html/communitystart?communityUuid=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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