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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    Windows Explorer Desktop PlugIn functions (not sync) for Mac

    For Windows the Explorer PlugIn is available. It allows to view the contents of the file repository and to download and upload files. An upload creates a new version and asks for a description of the changes . In Windows as well the synchronizatio...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 6 Under Consideration

    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Don't show restricted communities where you are NOT a member in Community Overview

    It is possible that somebody creates a restricted community and checks the option to show community name to the organisation. If you where a member in the past for that community, but not anymore, you still see the community in "My Communities" ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

    Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    "Find a member" functionality within mobile app

    If you access the members section of a community via a web browser, you are able to use "Find a Member" to search for a member without having to navigate through the entire member list. You do not have the same functionality in the mobile app. Ins...
    about 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Remember Last Filter setting in Community Overview

    Because the "My communities" overview shows every community that you visited once. This overview show many communities. There is a filter option to filter on "I am owner". But you need to set that filter every time you go to communities. Our re...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Display of Web Reports "Last Report Time" in CSV or PDF should default to local time instead of GMT time

    The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Time" field is local timezone but when exported to CSV or to PDF, the times in "Last Report Time" field in file are GMT. The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Ti...
    almost 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Adding touchpoint customization

    Making customization possible so that for example:- new people can "invite for my network" instead of only following.- add information to "background"- add links to "blog link"
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Disable link recognition in Activitystream and Mail notifications

    When you create a post (blog, forum, wiki) and add some project number or JIRA ticket number in the beginning, linked to your Helpdesk, or other system, this link gets removed in the mail notification and activity stream. When your JIRA number now...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    HCL Connections Desktop Plugin for DocsCorp

    The plugin gives you the option to save files from Word, Excel, Power Point directly in Connections. It would be super cool if DocsCorp also had the opportunity. Select files from communities, edit them in Docs Corp and save them back to the commu...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement
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