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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    Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

    The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

    Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

    The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    WAV Support

    Currently you can not play wav files in connections. please integrate as soon as possible. This must be standard
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    MP3 Support

    Please integrate support for mp3 files. Currently you can not embed mp3 files. Currently you can not play mp3 files in connections
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Assessment

    enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

    We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

    Save the last setting on sorting files

    User can sort the files to be listed by Name, Updated, Views, Comments and Likes but it does not keep the settings. This setting should be kept so the user don´t need to change it everytime.
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Light Mode/Dark Mode View

    Users should be able to switch between light and dark mode, for example, in the header bar at the top right. Similar to what Activities Plus currently offers. In Activities Plus, users can switch between light and dark mode, depending on their pre...
    11 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Preview outlook email (saved as a file in files)

    If you create an email from outlook in connections, it is not possible to preview this as you can with word, excel etc. This makes Connections a cumbersome system to use
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Show track changes when previewing a document

    If multiple people work on a document, with track changes / comments, you have to edit the document in Docs or download it and open it with a local app to see the highlighted items and comments. Especially when creating a new version, being able t...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add hyperlink/link in HCL Connections logo in CNX8

    With the new Connections 8.0 update, some of the customizations are not working anymore. One of this is adding a hyperlink to the Connections logo. We would like to request this to be added in the future releases of Connecitons 8.0 via customizer ...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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