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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    Add "change summary" to the media-updated newsletter

    We got a request from our customer to expand the media-updated newsletter with the field "change summary" you can optionally add when updating a file in Connections. So you directly know the reasons for updating the file without opening it.
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Search loading issue in Connections 6.5 - Files & Profiles

    Hello, Search is not working on the Connections 6.5 - Files and profiles. I've raised ticket and came to know that this is known issue in Files and Profiles. Kindly look into the issue.
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search should be clever and more fuzzy (especially with german words)

    When I search something in Connections the search is not fuzzy and clever enough to consider e.g. the singular and plural form of a word. E.g. when we search for "startmoment" it gives different results than when we search for "startmomente" (the ...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Disable file sharing option for External User

    In File viewer, there is a "Sharing" tab available for both Internal and External users. But It should not be visible to external users as they cannot share files to "EveryOne in the organisation" and "People".
    almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Preview of Macro Documents

    When i upload an excel macro to connections, then i don't see the preview when i open it. I have to download the file to see the content. Please change the preview so that excel or word documents with macros are shown.
    almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    DOCS edit: copy/paste image from browser to Presentation file does not work.

    Steps: 1. Open a presentation file or create a new one on Docs. 2. Edit the file. 3. Open another browser window and copy an image from the browser. 4. Go back to the presentation file and use Ctrl+V to paste the image. Result: Nothing happened. A...
    about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    FTP Upload option for files on Wiki Pages

    I am planning to host Internal report on the Wiki Pages with text and pictures ( Initial page prepared / finalized with all text / Pictures / Graphs ) . These pictures ( Graphs / New Stats / numbers ) needs to be updated on regular basis ( Daily /...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve handling of deleted folders

    Files application works in a way that when you are working on that specific folder, and you open another application, and then go back to Files application, the system will redirect you to the last folder you visited. If someone deletes that folde...
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Microsoft Office shows UUID instead of folder names at the overview with recently opened files

    If I open for example Microsoft Word and want to open a recently used file it shows only the UUID of the folder instead of the name. This is very confusing since we have often the case that a file has the same name but is from different communitie...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Fix JS errors from external users invite system

    A vanilla CNX 6.5 installation throws JS errors: XML Parsing Error: not well-formedLocation: https://cnx65.internal/selfservice/acl/inviteLine Number 1, Column 1: The mentioned url returns the following JSON: {"access":false} So something is wrong...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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