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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    Add members to main and subcommunity simultaneously

    Please make it possible to add members to the main and subcommunity in one go. Also, if someone asks for Access to a subcommunity you as owner should have the Chance to add him to the subcommunity. By this he is automatically in the main community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Add a Community homepage widget to show the community status updates on the homepage too

    Community status updates are a handy and important option to inform users of what's going on in a community. However, they are not shown on the community homepage (unless you change the default homepage to the status updates view) and therefore ha...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Microsoft file round tripping from Connections interface

    When a user finds an Office file from the Connections interface (either through files or communities) and then downloads that document from Connections and edits it in Office, he has to save it to his desktop and then "upload a new version". If th...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Already Exists

    Provide Docs templates to start with

    please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Extend Administrator access roles to trash content

    Currently, only the community owner/business owner is able to view the deleted community from their trash. Administrators are unable to view a deleted community and thus cannot restore the community themselves from the trash unless they too are ow...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Transfer Community content immediately to another admin when Business Owner is deleted

    The current process is: When a business owner is soft deleted and the ''assign To'' field is filled in, the Communities are put into a trash state. After 30 days the user is hard deleted. Then on the 90th day the content is transferred to the pers...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

    Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Sametime Meetings and Docs Integration

    When you are editing a document on docs sometime you need to talk to other people. HCL Docs should have an action to start a meeting using Sametime Meetings, this away it's possible to connect the people to develop a document.
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Future Consideration

    Most Used/followed Tags

    Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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