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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    Increase guest invitation deadline

    External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Notify the community owner when member add/leave the community.

    Function request to send notification to the community owner when the member add/leave the community.Community owner would like to know the change of community member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Highlights templates - add ability to recover prior display after disabling template

    If you apply a template to Highlights, you cannot undo and revert to your prior display. You instead need to undo the template relationship, and then reformat Highlights to match the prior display. Seeking the ability to capture the original displ...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Highlights templates - request for warning message before applying template

    You can apply a template to Highlights, but there is not an undo option. Requesting that a warning message display indicating that the selection cannot be undone.
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Word document adds extra column upon download in Docs

    When downloading a Word document that has been edited in Docs, the document table will contain an additional column on the right end side of the table. Steps to reproduce the issue:1) Create a file from MS Word (2016 or the latest version) at the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Table distorted on delete row operation when columns do not align in Docs

    When a table in an MS word document (2016 or latest version) has rows with merged cells across the table, the column width of the complete table gets unaligned/distorted if any row gets deleted. The document collapses, no undo is available so the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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