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 file to different folders within community

    We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    allow to switch an existing community to be external

    Allow to switch an existing community to be external. request the possibility to change an existing community (with content) to be available for external user.Please add functionality to change the community access level to external in web UI. At ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

    At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Ability to restore data past 90 days and ability to be added for admin for below functionality.

    List of ALL communities belonging to company users. There is function for administrators to retrieve this List of Admin, and guest users for each community. There is function for administrators to retrieve this Last time each community was used ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

    Adding or deleting Community member

    Customer would like to Delete the community member by bulk Delete all the member except Business owner and owner from Community. "Cancel" confirmation button in adding member to Subcommunities checked "Add all members from the parent community." a...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Feature to remove specific nodes under "HCL Connections" in Windows Explorer

    According to https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connectors/enduser/r_files_prefs_and_policies_windows.html it is possible to configure the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins via registry entries and disable, for example Activities functionali...
    almost 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Option to Export to Calendar all repeating events

    When "Export to Calendar (.ics)" option is used within a repeating event, it should include all the repeating events so that they can be imported to the user's calendar at one time. Customer would like there to be the option to import all repeatin...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Alter default community events view so that the calendar view appears by default for members of a single specific community.

    Instead of the default view being the events list, make the Calendar view to appear when switching to the events widget. It should be a community setting to select whether the list view or calendar view is the default.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration
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