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 resize the left sidebar also for community files

    For community files we need the possibility to resize the left sidebar. Sometimes the Folder names are long and the user only see a part of the folder name and .... This is not very user friendly. The feature to resize the left sidebar (navigation...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

    f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

    If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

    It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

    Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

    Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

    A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Fix menu bars when scrolling

    Dear Team, one problem in the community is, that the menu bar on top and on the left of the page are not fixed upon scrolling. So I simply loose the option to navigate once I have reached lower parts of a page. This is highly annoying since most m...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    How to know who deletes files in a Community

    Is there a way to monitor who deletes or moves a file to trash of a community?
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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