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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    Rich Text in iOS support - Missing content in mobile that is available in browser

    When customer create an activity in the browser the table appears. If customer do the edition of the activity with the iOS mobile app, the whole design of the table will be destroyed. We found that Rich text editing is not supported in Activities ...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Templates in all components

    As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    ADMX Templates for Desktop Plugins

    To configure group policies in a Windows Domain, typically ADMX templates are used. However, for the desktop plugins, only old ADM Templates are available, which don't work well with current Windows versions. The old ADM Files were used with Group...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugins: automatically clean up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing.

    CHANGE REQUEST: Build something into a new version of the installer which automatically cleans up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing. REASON FOR CHANGE:Customer has had problems getti...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

    With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to upgrade CKEditor while keeping Connections version

    It'd be helpful if there is a way to upgrade CKEditor while keeping the Connections version. Currently, the only way to upgrade CKEditor is to upgrade the entire Connections deployment.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Change default value of overwriting a newer version via desktop-plugin

    In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the user that the server file has changed since the us...
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

    Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Remove Navigation bar on bottom of ICEC Pages on Mobile

    If you are using ICEC on Mobile, there is always a grey navigation bar on the bottom of the page, which is taking up a lot of space. This navigation is not needed and should be removed.
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 3 Already Exists

    No remote css, js or fonts from CDN or whereever

    After Community Catalog and Orient Me, now the admin panel loads css, fonts or js from external resources. See all avantages and concerns here: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1334 This is a security issue at most of our...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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