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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    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

    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

    ICEC's Integration of Navigation does not display the Wiki's fourth Child in the menu. I want the menu to display the fourth or more.

    Create a new Wiki (First Wiki) and create a child document (Child 1) on it. Create another child document (Child 2) in the child document (Child 1). In addition, create a child document (Child 3). First Wiki | +-Child 1 | +-Child 2 | +-Child 3 ...
    over 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Hide public files

    Hello everyone, the Connections installation operated in our data center is shared by several municipalities connected to us. Occasionally, the erroneous sharing of a file with the "everyone in my organization" permission level leads to a file bei...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Show Subcommunities on the Community Overview Page

    Since CR4 there is the new Community Overview Page. But it does not show Subcommunities. Please fix this or add an option to activate this.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists

    Sort Files by "Shared with"

    It would be really helpful to have the possibility to show all files shared with a specific person. For example if someone transfers to another department and you want to share all files to the successor. Best place would be to add this feature wi...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Make it possible to serach in all versions of files

    Minutes from meetings are stored in a new version as the meetings persist. In my case, I now have 66 versions of the minutes for a project period. I am trying to find a case that was dealt with in an earlier meeting, but I don't think the search e...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement
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