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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    Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

    Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Add possibility edit status updates

    Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

    It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

    In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
    about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Printing of document from preview cuts off part of the document

    Printing a pdf document from the document preview will cut off the right margin of the document. Previewing the pdf document does show the complete document but when printing, the right margin is cut off, you can already see this in the print pr...
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Future Consideration

    Abliity to change the external share status of a file after upload

    Currently, you can only decide if a file should be allowed to be shared externally during upload. If you change your mind, you should be able to change this in the UI as an owner of a file
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Support in Connections Docs for Table formulas

    A table is a feature in Excel that makes it easier to format and analyze a set of data points in a spreadsheet. Tables were introduced in Excel 2007 as an extension of the ‘Lists’ feature in the earlier versions. In Excel 2007 onwards, you can als...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Disable version summary pop-up when publishing docs from native applications

    When publishing documents from native applications using the HCL Connections plug-in, you must complete a version summary pop-up before finalizing publication. The workflow is as follows: Open a Microsoft Word document through the HCL Connection...
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Upload PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Connections

    Hello, it would be a nice feature to upload a PDF file directly to Connections. When I have a open document in Adobe Reader --> save --> at Connections. Tags etc as following steps.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

    When edit excel file in Docs, the "filter by" action should not effect other users editing the file

    When multi users edit the excel file, if one person use the "filter by" function, all other persons will be affect. for example, if a person use "filter by name" to edit "his own content", all other persons will not be able to see their content.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration
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