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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    almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Add views in the desktop plugin to show all locked files (in personal and community files!)

    With locking now becoming more prevalent now the desktop plugin allows for automatic locking (great addition!), it would be great to add views to easily identify locked files: Each person should have a view that shows all files locked by them, reg...
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Clarification

    Introduce the ability to restrict the use of certain search keywords for searching Connections

    Introduce an option/configurable method for administrators to specify a list of restricted keyword strings that users are not permitted to use to search Connections content. Similar to the blacklisting of certain search keywords in the environment.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    The possibility to add a new Tab in the Profile Edit Mode

    There is currently no HCL documentation that describes how to create a new tab in the Profile Editor view where you can find the desired profile extensions. Example: Tab Contact Information and a new Custom Edit Tab --> IT Information
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Delete the current search history in the app

    Give the users the opportunity to delete their current search history in the HCL Connections app. This helps if the overview is no longer given by the search results.
    over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Restrict the Community Surveys creation

    Customer would like to have the ability to restrict the Community Surveys creation by Admin users
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    When clicking on a document in the activity stream unable to open in a new tab

    The communities when opened in a new tab open properly. The activity stream document links when opened in a new tab does not open and shows about:block page. This only works on the Files component.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Exclude Filter for tags

    When filtering by tag in the tag cloud I would like the possibility to select tags to be excluded from the results. Main use case in mind is for example to exclude entries tagged with foreign language e.g. 'lang_de' to only display topics I can re...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Can the Check box with "include inactive users" be hidden from the catalog search?

    Customer is looking for the option under Search the Directory under Directory >> Display full search options under user Profiles where you want to hide the Check Box option for "Include inactive users in search results".
    almost 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 No Plans to Implement
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