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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    Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

    Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    The ability to chose the extension of an exported profile photo

    In Connections V8, if exporting Profiles photos by using dump_photos_to_files.sh , the exported photos are with ".dat" format, this can be only used to import to another Profile database. Need Connections to have the ability to export Profile phot...
    8 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

    Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Report of Communities, Files and Mail (Size Used)

    Customer would like to have a report with the information below: 1) Users X the used size of mailbox 2) Users X the used size of their share of connections Files 3) Listing Active Communities in the enterprise, with the size used by each.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    SignOn screen. Please don't clear the email-address after a false login-attempt

    See screenshot, is rather frustrating for our users
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Paperless Notes - like OneNote

    Our Customer request an area for personal Notes - like MS OneNote without specific area to notice some information on a blank paper. Some tabs to organize the information and centralization to give some Users the information to share it. Other pos...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    No option to create scrollbar in text editor

    Right now, you can only create scrollbars in tables with HTML scripts that use the <textarea> tags. Not everyone knows how to use HTML scripting well. It would be helpful to add a user-friendly option in the table menu or during table creati...
    8 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Add an option to collapse a blog to a title and summary view vs all entries being expanded inline

    For Connections (Cloud) blogs, there should be a way to collapse the blog entries so you could more easily see the headings (titles) and expand only the entry that you want to read at the time. For example: Blog title1 Short summary, perhaps th...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Forum upload should fail right away if the size exceeds the configured limit

    Attaching a size limit-exceeding file to a forum topic or reply takes time to fail. It would be better for the UI to recognize that the file exceeds the limit and fail immediately. Instead, end users need to wait and will eventually see an appropr...
    over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    Limit the Number of File Versions to Retain

    Files that are worked on regularly often have several hundred versions that are no longer needed. However, the normal user will not delete the old versions manually; instead, they unnecessarily use up storage space. It would be great if you could ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration
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