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 support of OnlyOffice

    It is possible to integrate OnlyOffice in Connections. https://www.onlyoffice.com/fr/
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    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

    Enlarging the number of excel data (XLSX) which can be previewed

    The file viewer should allow a bigger amount to data to be previewed. That is we would like to enhance the 1024 column limitation Currently supported features : https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022015
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Chat, Audio and Video communication when multiple users are editing the certain document.

    Chat, Audio and Video communication when multiple users are editing the certain document. Sametime integration
    almost 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Disable file sharing option for External User

    In File viewer, there is a "Sharing" tab available for both Internal and External users. But It should not be visible to external users as they cannot share files to "EveryOne in the organisation" and "People".
    almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Preview of Macro Documents

    When i upload an excel macro to connections, then i don't see the preview when i open it. I have to download the file to see the content. Please change the preview so that excel or word documents with macros are shown.
    almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    DOCS edit: copy/paste image from browser to Presentation file does not work.

    Steps: 1. Open a presentation file or create a new one on Docs. 2. Edit the file. 3. Open another browser window and copy an image from the browser. 4. Go back to the presentation file and use Ctrl+V to paste the image. Result: Nothing happened. A...
    about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    FTP Upload option for files on Wiki Pages

    I am planning to host Internal report on the Wiki Pages with text and pictures ( Initial page prepared / finalized with all text / Pictures / Graphs ) . These pictures ( Graphs / New Stats / numbers ) needs to be updated on regular basis ( Daily /...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve handling of deleted folders

    Files application works in a way that when you are working on that specific folder, and you open another application, and then go back to Files application, the system will redirect you to the last folder you visited. If someone deletes that folde...
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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