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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    UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

    The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Option to open specific Social Q&A contents from my mobile device

    Users would like to be able to open mobile links pointing to specific Social Q&A contents from mobile device since at the moment all mobile links only point to the start page of Social Q&A.
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    External Access to Existing communties

    Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add support of OnlyOffice

    It is possible to integrate OnlyOffice in Connections. https://www.onlyoffice.com/fr/
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

    When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the Desktop Plugin: AAA.xlsx Abb.xlsx Acc.xlsx ADD.xlsx Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the W...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to disable certain widgets within Highlights

    Requesting the ability to control the display for Highlights widgets via a configuration parameter. We would like to disable, for example, the "iFrame" widget across all communities so that it is not displayed as a choice.
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Allow Public Community Folders and Files with restricted access

    HR department maintains a public community for employee information. Each year, some information such as health insurance coverage change so instead of replacing or deleting the files, they create an "archive" folder for that specific year within ...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Enlarging the number of excel data (XLSX) which can be previewed

    The file viewer should allow a bigger amount to data to be previewed. That is we would like to enhance the 1024 column limitation Currently supported features : https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022015
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Allow admins to choose which user gets associated with a community in search results

    The person who creates a community will permanently be associated with the community as the original community creator. Search results that display communities display the community creator without any additional context. If the community creator ...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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