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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    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

    Wiki articles should be automatically arranged alphabetically

    All child wiki articles should be arranged alphabetically automatically.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    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

    Who saw my blog in connections cloud ?

    How can i know who has read my blog ? Customer would like to know who saw his/her blog in Connections Cloud. A report of the users would be a good information.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

    It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Search in Blog and Wiki combining tags and keywords

    Currently it is not possible within a single wiki or blog to search with a combination of tags and keywords. (It is possible in Forums) You can just filter by tags but not do both Example search entries tagged with 'connext' containing the keyword...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    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

    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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