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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 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...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 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 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

CentOS Support

Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists

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 6 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 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

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...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Option to create a list of Files/Folders

Currently it's not possible to create a list of files/folders from the apps Files/Folders or Libraries in Community's similar to for instance the old fashioned DIR-command you can use to list files/folders for a local hard drive or networkdrive.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement
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