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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 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

Create a survey from mobile app

Customer wants to have an option to create a survey from the mobile app. Now he has to create and start a survey via web browser then he can see it in mobile app. It's not convenient for these mobile app users. Please consider to add the feature f...
about 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability to cancel out of More selection on iOS

If you click the "More" option on bottom right of iOS app, you can't undo the choice. You're forced to make a new selection. It would be better to be able to cancel out of the menu to go back to where you were. Otherwise, you lose context. Recomme...
over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

Improved handling of community wiki search results on mobile

This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. Search results should be presented in a more clear manner for community wiki results. Usability Issue 1 - Search result shows "Community Wiki" inste...
over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

Allow Microsoft file round tripping from Connections interface

When a user finds an Office file from the Connections interface (either through files or communities) and then downloads that document from Connections and edits it in Office, he has to save it to his desktop and then "upload a new version". If th...
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Already Exists

Extend Administrator access roles to trash content

Currently, only the community owner/business owner is able to view the deleted community from their trash. Administrators are unable to view a deleted community and thus cannot restore the community themselves from the trash unless they too are ow...
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Most Used/followed Tags

Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Improve general performance of the connections web application

Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with textbox.io

Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the textbox.io editor. If you edit a wiki page and click on + icon the "Bookmark" button is not available but exists in blogs, forums, etc. Our users request it. The users need the functionality ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement