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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    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Show file is locked icon when in "Show All" inside Community

    In the Overview page in your Community, you can see behind the file a locked-icon. This icon dissapears when you press show all. In the All Files overview, you cannot see if the file is locked or not, you have to open it first.
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Files - Ability to set the Maximum File Size for a Single Upload by Using a File Policy

    Currently it is only possible to set maximum file size for a single upload globally by modifiying the "files-config.xml" file, as described in the Files Configuration Properties documentation article. Please add the possibility to set the maximum ...
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Search person by telephone number

    I got a telephone call from someone I do not have in my contat list. Now I do not know how to find who called me. It would be helpful to have the Option of searching by telephone number, like a phonebook. Thanks
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Already Exists

    File Preview shall be able to display XMind mind maps

    When looking at Files, several file formats are supported, like .gif, .pptx, .docx, .pdf etc - but there is no support for displaying mind maps from e.g. XMind. Please include a preview function for .xmind files as well. We often use Xmind mindmap...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Summarize/Merge multiple content in status updates

    If a user uploads several images or files in one action, a separate status update is generated for each image/file. If there is a large number of images/files, the sequence stream becomes very confusing. Therefore it would be better to merge these...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to set access level to delete files and folders.

    The shared files and folders can be deleted by every user who were shared them even the access level is "Reader" and "Editor". Only "Owner" should be able to delete the files and folders.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Add API support to show me which Files I liked

    This is currently not present and we need it to display "files/photos I liked"
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration
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