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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    Notice that a similar wiki already exists

    Currently you only get a message (error message) if you want to create a wiki in a community in the wikis with the same name that already exists. However, there is no hint from the system if you want to create a wiki that may contain the same topi...
    about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections to support .wmv extension on Files Preview

    Customer would like to have ability the Preview files with extension .wmv on Files application. As per the note in the documentation below "The supported file formats are listed in this file and appear to be editable; however any changes to the fo...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Prohibit / Restrict blog creation

    There is no rule to prohibit Blog creation. For communities, for example, we can restrict a group of people that can create communities. There is no similar rule for Blogs.Customer request this feature to be added in a future version of the product.
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    ODBC access to community stored files

    currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    use email to upload files in a community

    It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

    It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

    The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    External Access to Existing communties

    Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add support of OnlyOffice

    It is possible to integrate OnlyOffice in Connections. https://www.onlyoffice.com/fr/
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

    When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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