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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    Easy tagging people by clicking on existing tags

    I can see which tags are assigned to a profile. If I want to contribute also and emphasize on an existing tag, I need to write it or copy it. My idea is to have the possibility to click on the tag itself and with that action I added it to the prof...
    about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Change Community catalog view logic for "recent updates" to show updates rather than all reads

    The Trending with My Company view shows the number of "recent updates" for each community. This number is the total number of all events reflected in the ElasticSearch index for each community over the last 7 days. This includes visits and other r...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Under Consideration

    Searching files in connections. Selecting from Results should display path of folders where content uploaded to. This will assist some parties in projects to understand an manage content a lot faster as part of a project team

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    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

    When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Requesting the ability to update strings in Highlights app

    Updating product strings in the Highlights app is only available if a deployment has full Connections Engagement Center entitlement. Without it, the strings cannot be modified. Requesting the ability to modify strings without full Connections Enga...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Show folders a file is shared with in the Desktop connecor "Sharing Details" window too.

    Currently if a file is shared with one or more personal folders this is shown on the sharing tab in the Browser view but not shown on the "Sharing Details" option when using the Windows Explorer Desktop Connector (only shares with people or commun...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugin for Linux

    As a Linux user, I would love to see the desktop plugin made available for Linux systems as well. So that you can easily access your files without having to launch the browser. This should be possible in a similar way as under macOS? In recent tim...
    over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

    Option to disable the comments on Files

    In our company, files are very often used for user instructions and as a knowledge archive.Especially with the instructions, many users ask questions and provide feedback in the comments on the file pages - which quickly becomes confusing. And a f...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Thumbnail not visible (actual mini images of uploaded files) for files (imgaes, pdf etc.), instead general mini image (of pdfs, jpeg) is visible

    When you upload a file ( inside community Library ) general icon of PDF or JEPG is visible as thumbnail, it should be actual image of uploaded file. I've tested it on several environments like Connections 6 CR5,CR4 and on 5.5 versions also.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Desktop Plugin - printer integration

    In some cases we use PDF's and other tools. for better integration without any ribons or something else, it might be a good idea to integrate a printer driver to convert and upload any information to hcl connections. This is an request against One...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement
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