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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    Provide control of order of "menu items" in Community to Community Owner

    Connections Communities use a menu bar for the different apps within the most popular and modern approaches like highlights. The sort order of the items is given by the software package. There are good ideas why "Highlight" should become the first...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    allow resize the left sidebar also for community files

    For community files we need the possibility to resize the left sidebar. Sometimes the Folder names are long and the user only see a part of the folder name and .... This is not very user friendly. The feature to resize the left sidebar (navigation...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

    f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

    If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Make "Files Folder Tree" scalable

    With us, the question and the desire to scale up the folder structure in the Files application always comes up. This is possible in the Wikis application since Version 6CR5. Users can move the left navigation bar independently of the actual wiki c...
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    There is no way to delete multiple document in the folder at the same time.

    There is no way to delete multiple document in the folder at the same time. We have to delete each document with a couple of additional click as like more -> more action -> move to trash. This is not reasonable. Even though we can not delete...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

    It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

    Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

    Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

    A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration
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