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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    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

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under 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

    Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

    Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future 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

    Video preview plays videos without sound (muted)

    uploaded video by default has the volume muted. Customer would like the ability to set the default volume of uploaded video content.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    Disable compression for Thumbnails in mediagalery

    Pictures uploaded and used as a thumbnails in media gallery looks to be in lower quality. As software do this as an optimization process, is there a way to disable the compression for Thumbnails in media gallery
    8 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    HTML5 Directory Upload for Connections in Browser

    Current state:Currently, using the browser interface users can only upload individual files to Connections. Users are able to select multiple files for upload, but not a whole directory or multiple subdirectories for upload. Enable uploading of Di...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    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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