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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    Allow "Track changes" also for. xlsx files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on xls files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Excel files.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Services Status Page for Monitoring

    This idea suggests to introduce a HTTP status page for all Connections services. This status page will enhance and simplify service monitoring and load balancing on the infrastructure level. If Connections is configured for Federated Authenticatio...
    about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

    Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
    11 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Possibility to move the "Profile" icon to the main location in the Connections side menu

    We need the possibility to move the "Profile" icon to the main location (Above the "Homepage" icon) in the Connections side menu via Customizer. Currently, doing so via Customizer, will result in the Profile Icon not showing the default CNX avatar...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    PDF Export generation enhancement

    We kindly request the offering management to consider enhancing the PDF Export feature by allowing multiple users to utilize it simultaneously. Additionally, we would like to suggest that the PDF export process be terminated promptly upon closing ...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Community Bookmarks should have a "open in new window" option

    To be sure to stay in your current context, community bookmarks should not only have the option to be important, they should also be allowed to be opened in a new window/tab so the community view stays available for you.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Two factor authentication

    Add additional security layer on login to add 2Factor apps like Google authenticator.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    improve the maximum files displayed for Files list and Folders widgets

    Hello HCL Connections offering management, I would like to bring to your attention the product documentations provided for your product. Specifically, I am referring to the following links: - https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connect...
    about 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Enhancement request: Improvement of search quality - Expression variations of Katakana characters of Japanese language

    This is enhancement request from Yachiyo Industry who is using Connections Social Cloud and ICEC on Cloud. Kata-kana characters of Japanese language has some expression variations. For example, a word "A project manager" has 8 expression variatio...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

    Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement
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