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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    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Files - Ability to set the Maximum File Size for a Single Upload by Using a File Policy

    Currently it is only possible to set maximum file size for a single upload globally by modifiying the "files-config.xml" file, as described in the Files Configuration Properties documentation article. Please add the possibility to set the maximum ...
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    File Preview shall be able to display XMind mind maps

    When looking at Files, several file formats are supported, like .gif, .pptx, .docx, .pdf etc - but there is no support for displaying mind maps from e.g. XMind. Please include a preview function for .xmind files as well. We often use Xmind mindmap...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Summarize/Merge multiple content in status updates

    If a user uploads several images or files in one action, a separate status update is generated for each image/file. If there is a large number of images/files, the sequence stream becomes very confusing. Therefore it would be better to merge these...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to set access level to delete files and folders.

    The shared files and folders can be deleted by every user who were shared them even the access level is "Reader" and "Editor". Only "Owner" should be able to delete the files and folders.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Add API support to show me which Files I liked

    This is currently not present and we need it to display "files/photos I liked"
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Implement Full Community Copy or Template including CCM Library Structure and Predefined Content

    Our Projects require a Template for their communities that utilizes the same Buttons, CCM Library folders, Basic Wiki structure, predefined Forums etc... We would like the ability to Copy a Template Community (similar to what can be done in activ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Utilize the Users Timezone When creating / viewing Events

    Currently events does not respect the users timezone so events are displayed in the Connections Server time and not converted to the appropriate time for the end user even when exporting to the Notes calendar ... this makes the tool unusable for l...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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