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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    Embed a video file in a blog

    Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review

    Connections Community Name Update Discrepancy

    When you update the community name through the Connections page, the changes do not automatically reflect in the Connections desktop plugin. This discrepancy can lead to confusion among users, as they may see different community names on different...
    about 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    External community members should also get notifications

    Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

    Allow Shared Files to be Included in Community Folder

    When files are shared by someone with a community, those files cannot be put into a community folder. It would be ideal if all files in a community (whether owned by the community or shared with the community) could appear in the same folder.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Printing of document from preview cuts off part of the document

    Printing a pdf document from the document preview will cut off the right margin of the document. Previewing the pdf document does show the complete document but when printing, the right margin is cut off, you can already see this in the print pr...
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Future Consideration

    On-prem support for Outlook Add-in using OIDC configured with Keycloak

    Requesting support for using the on-premises Outlook Add-in with Keycloak OIDC
    over 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Support in Connections Docs for Table formulas

    A table is a feature in Excel that makes it easier to format and analyze a set of data points in a spreadsheet. Tables were introduced in Excel 2007 as an extension of the ‘Lists’ feature in the earlier versions. In Excel 2007 onwards, you can als...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Fix assigning community template admin roles

    Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Disable version summary pop-up when publishing docs from native applications

    When publishing documents from native applications using the HCL Connections plug-in, you must complete a version summary pop-up before finalizing publication. The workflow is as follows: Open a Microsoft Word document through the HCL Connection...
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    When edit excel file in Docs, the "filter by" action should not effect other users editing the file

    When multi users edit the excel file, if one person use the "filter by" function, all other persons will be affect. for example, if a person use "filter by name" to edit "his own content", all other persons will not be able to see their content.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration
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