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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    Open files directly in specific applications from within the browser

    If users are receiving file links, the files get previewed within the browser. If they then want to edit the file directly in the specific application and not in the online editor the file needs to be downloaded, saved in an intermediate place and...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Option to have guest logon with a 2FA or any other option to force dual authentication

    At this moment guest are invited by a link to there email-address. However we can't be sure that we haven't made a typo or know if others then our guest have access to the emailbox. We like to have an option that the guest can only access the comm...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Provide RSS/ATOM Feed links for Orient-me Pages

    The system does not provide RSS/ATOM feed links at the bottom of the page for any page of Orient Me. This function is not available in general.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    UX of URL preview in AS misleading, make the title more "Link-like"

    The UX of the URL preview that is shown in the Activity Stream is misleading if somebody posts a link to a webpage. At the moment it shows the title in black which needs to be clicked in order to visit the linked page. But right below the host (e....
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Moderation of wall posts/status updates and the respective comments

    So far the built-in moderation feature only covers blogs, forums, and files. Moderation of status updates and respective comments is not possible. - Flag as inappropriate is missing.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Advanced formatting in Powerpoint presentations doesn't display correctly in Docs

    When you open a Powerpoint presentation in Docs that has advanced formatting, such as a SmartArt Graphics list, it doesn't display correctly and you get the following popup message: "Display limitations This document contains advanced formatting...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Docs Document Templates.

    Docs Document Templates. Word, Excel, PowerPoint templates. Create and usage accordingly for new documents based on template
    almost 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Deleting automatically the Docs temp files instead of manual intervention

    We understand that when there is an issue with the Conversion cluster, it also affects the viewer. For instance, when content fails to render, storage space is still consumed. Is there a way to automatically clear the temporary directory, rather t...
    over 1 year ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Ideation Blog Widget in CEC does not display an image entry

    The Ideation widget in Connections Engagement Center does not display an image in the Ideation blog entry. It only displays the text in the Ideation blog entry. It would be very helpful for users to be able to see the image associated with the blo...
    almost 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Provide option to request access to restricted content

    Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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