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 "People birthday widget" available in Connections Cloud Service-only

    People birthday widget is not avaibable in Cloud Environment.
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 No Plans to Implement

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

    Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    bsi guidlines, certification

    bsi guidlines, certification for Connections
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

    Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

    A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Customizer should work on ICEC pages

    The Customizer should work on all pages in Connections. There is a path for the customizer that says "global" and the user expects that this global would also include ICEC. But the customizer is not working on ICEC pages. But a general new design ...
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Share community file with other communities

    Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add multi-client capability to Connections on-premise

    We are hosting Connections on-prem for our company and our customers. Today we have the choice to put all the customers on one Cnx infrastructure or to provide a own infrastructure per customer. Both solutions have a lot of disadvantages. So my id...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    It should be possible to vote for comments

    It should be possible to vote for comments. Especially in posts with lots of comments it would be nice to see the "hot" ones (e.g. youtube) or the possibility to filter for it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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