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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    Connections to support .wmv extension on Files Preview

    Customer would like to have ability the Preview files with extension .wmv on Files application. As per the note in the documentation below "The supported file formats are listed in this file and appear to be editable; however any changes to the fo...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Support MS SQL for surveys

    As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

    What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    ODBC access to community stored files

    currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    use email to upload files in a community

    It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

    It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Editor "Mode"

    Some users would like to have a dedicated Editor mode. On Wikis, Blogs, ICEC Pages, basically all Connections Applications and Pages where they have editor access, the buttons like "Edit" should be hidden. Only when the users activate die "Edit" f...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the Desktop Plugin: AAA.xlsx Abb.xlsx Acc.xlsx ADD.xlsx Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the W...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Let me know when a survey is taken

    I see no option to receive an email or notifaction when someone took the time to respond to a survey I made
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Allow Public Community Folders and Files with restricted access

    HR department maintains a public community for employee information. Each year, some information such as health insurance coverage change so instead of replacing or deleting the files, they create an "archive" folder for that specific year within ...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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