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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    Need the ability to download all files in a folder at once in Connections Cloud

    Customer is using Connections cloud. Currently he can download all files in a community via the function of "Download all files" (Under view of "Files"-"All Community Files"). Customer requested the same function of "download all files" for an fol...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Needs Clarification

    allow unlimited file growth in communities

    The 50Gig limit kills me. We receive 120Gig in regular projects as the handover from the customer - and start producing then up to Terabytes. (I do not ask to get that for free...) We would prefer to go BYOS on our own S3 storage accounts on Azur...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    access all files by a "normal" UNC path / SMB share

    we would like to access files like normal files on a harddisk or network share. 2 main reasons: - use links between files (e.g. in excel formula) - automatically upload and update (new version) files by copy or by a file generation tool
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Link to open files directly in Android app

    Customer is running IC55 + CR1 and mobile devices running Andriod 6.x or newer. What customer really wants to create a link that can be used to automatically launch a file in the in the mobile app. Accodding to the product documentation available ...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Allow linking anything to anything

    Allow the same way of linking all type of documents to each other, like in Wiki pages. Also check if the link target document is deleted and when you delete a document check if it is linked to anywhere.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Clarification

    Show Teaser of Blog Entry instead of full entry before A user opens it

    The content of a blog is fully presented to the reader as soon as the blog app is opened. This limits the amount of posts a user can see at a glance and as well impacts the read count of the post since there is no need to open the post.Add a tease...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to add widgets to Orient Me

    We want to have the possibility to add widgets to Orient Me like we could on the old homepage on the right side (Recommendations, To Dos, Events) in order to show e.g. trending topics (separate self-developed report that shows what's currently tre...
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Proper URL preview in Orient Me

    We want to have a proper URL preview of URLs posted in a status update on Orient Me. e.g. google.com works, but if you post e.g. a link to Amazon, nothing is previewed. The URL preview should work for all links and needs to be consistent.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration
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