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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    Display of Web Reports "Last Report Time" in CSV or PDF should default to local time instead of GMT time

    The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Time" field is local timezone but when exported to CSV or to PDF, the times in "Last Report Time" field in file are GMT. The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Ti...
    almost 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Video preview plays videos without sound (muted)

    uploaded video by default has the volume muted. Customer would like the ability to set the default volume of uploaded video content.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    Disable compression for Thumbnails in mediagalery

    Pictures uploaded and used as a thumbnails in media gallery looks to be in lower quality. As software do this as an optimization process, is there a way to disable the compression for Thumbnails in media gallery
    8 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    HTML5 Directory Upload for Connections in Browser

    Current state:Currently, using the browser interface users can only upload individual files to Connections. Users are able to select multiple files for upload, but not a whole directory or multiple subdirectories for upload. Enable uploading of Di...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Invite feature does not work with UTF-8 Names

    While using the invite feature, if you use some UTF-8 Characters it does not work. Please enhance this. We have customers which are not IT engineers, they do not care about encoding. For us, this is a complete show stopper. For example encode the ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    If no profile picture exists, then profile picture with abbreviation of first and last name.

    If people don't upload a picture there is only the one default profil icon - even not gender neutral. Would be nice to show the profile ficture with abbreviation of first and last name. This is common way - e.g. MS Teams, Outlook etc.
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    Changing "Request to Join this Community" to something like "Joining Request had been sent" after sumbited joining requst

    When request to join a moderated community, user sumbit joining request by clicking "Request to Join this Community". After request was submitted, the "Request to Join this Community" would still be displayed. "Request to Join this Community" shou...
    8 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

    Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Make File Folders searchable

    Users cannot search for folder names in the current releases. Make these searchable.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files'

    We want to have the option to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files' if they wanted to as they are not currently using the functionality and it appears to be causing confusion for their users.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration
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