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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    Enhance Activities

    There is an opportunity to turn Activities into a more powerful project/task management tool: - add optional starting date for todos so they have a duration - add optional links between tasks (depends-on, conflicts-with,...) - add optional priorit...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

    Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
    about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Administrator can turn off to share Files to externals.

    Many customers request the feature to prohibit user to share files to external for their security policy. Org admin should have the option to turn off to share files to externals.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Formatting comments in the ideation blog

    Function for formatting comments in the ideation blog. Similar to writing an idea, fomatization and moderation options could help to write comments or give feedback. Besides, adding images in the comment section would help.
    about 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Open files directly in specific applications from within the browser

    If users are receiving file links, the files get previewed within the browser. If they then want to edit the file directly in the specific application and not in the online editor the file needs to be downloaded, saved in an intermediate place and...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Old table of contents

    ​Previously there was the possibility, in the wiki, to create an table of contents by button and to updateI would like this functionality again. Now I have to create a table of contents via macro (Table of Contents) that can be updated. I have to ...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to use a target in iFrame

    ​In a iFrame the "a" targets "_top" and "_parent" dont work. We need it because our Wiki has an iFrame to an HTML Site on an Sharepoint. Solution: Adding "allow-top-navigation" to "sandbox" in iFrames.
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Windows Explorer Integration

    I would like: The possibility to Add To Folder from "My Files" section Also Copy/Paste directly under "My Folders" to upload new version or add a file. I would also like to access Files uploaded to Blogs via the Windows Explorer.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Select all Files

    Please offer an possibility for an user to select all files with one click, e.g. when a user tries to transfer ownership of his files (more then 2000) to another user. As the My Files page is a scrolling page, the user is forced to first scroll do...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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