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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    Searching for Numbers in Quickresults not working as expected

    When searching for numbers in the quickresults sidebar, no documents are found in quick search. For example if a file name starts with numericals like 11604_test.doc, and if we search with 11604* for doc, it is not listed in the search icon. If th...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Add change summary

    It would be useful to have the possibility to add a change summary to a new version of a file after the version has been published in case the user forgot to add it while uploading. Should be only possible for the user who uploaded the new version.
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    The "password reset" feature should also work for internal users

    The ability to reset a password from the login page should also work for internal users and not only for external/guest users. Currently it does sort of work, but internal users get an error when they did change their password
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    DELETE Button in Files App for multiple files

    Hello, In the Files application it is not possible to delete multiple files via Web UI. You have to click on the files individually and say "Delete". This is so tiring and not really nice with almost 200 files. Please add a "Delete" button next to...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Assessment

    Other LDAP Posibillities - Azure AD Support.

    At the moment there are only LDAP options such as Active Directory, Domino LDAP, Open LDAP. We would like to have the option of connecting an Azure AD for external users as well.
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Already Exists

    Customize Community Mail Footer Links Using Variables

    While the links in the footer of community notifications can be customized using literal URLs in the associated FTL file, it would be nice to be able to use variables. Using a variable would allow for URL changes within the environment without hav...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Timestamp for the privacyAndGuidelines Field

    Currently in Connections, there is a timestamp for touchpoint in Unix timestamp format, but not specifically for the privacyAndGuideline field. This means that when new privacyAndGuidelines are configured in touchpoint-config.xml in version 1.3 fo...
    over 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Automatic tagging based on templates

    Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

    There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration
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