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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    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

    Fix menu bars when scrolling

    Dear Team, one problem in the community is, that the menu bar on top and on the left of the page are not fixed upon scrolling. So I simply loose the option to navigate once I have reached lower parts of a page. This is highly annoying since most m...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    How to know who deletes files in a Community

    Is there a way to monitor who deletes or moves a file to trash of a community?
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

    Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add members to main and subcommunity simultaneously

    Please make it possible to add members to the main and subcommunity in one go. Also, if someone asks for Access to a subcommunity you as owner should have the Chance to add him to the subcommunity. By this he is automatically in the main community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Extra field in the "All Community Files" list

    We like to have an extra column in the "All Community Files" list so that we can see which of these files is shared in one or more folders (just the way we can see the # of views) We need this option to easily check: a) if all files are put in a f...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    admin dashboard

    I feel that so far Connections lack dashboard for Administrator to view the status how the Connections perform. Example, always Admin need to know what Communities so far created, public/private. Administrator no way to manage the file size quota ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Future Consideration
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