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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Ideas

    Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

    With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to upgrade CKEditor while keeping Connections version

    It'd be helpful if there is a way to upgrade CKEditor while keeping the Connections version. Currently, the only way to upgrade CKEditor is to upgrade the entire Connections deployment.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Change default value of overwriting a newer version via desktop-plugin

    In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the user that the server file has changed since the us...
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

    Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to delete the reposts from your profile

    Users cannot delete a status reposting from their Connections profiles. If the admin deletes it, the original status is also gone. It will be useful to simply delete such reposts, because most of them are reposted by mystake.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    No remote css, js or fonts from CDN or whereever

    After Community Catalog and Orient Me, now the admin panel loads css, fonts or js from external resources. See all avantages and concerns here: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1334 This is a security issue at most of our...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

    When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

    When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

    I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting tas...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Update the Connections logo in the daily newsletters (Connections MT)

    The daily newsletters from Connections MT are great, but the old Connections logo are in them. As I understand it, it is in the code?
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment
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