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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    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Support standard keyboard shortcut F2 for rename of file

    In Windows Explorer F2 is the shortcut to rename a file in Windows Explorer. This is not available in Desktop Plugin. Her you have to make a right mouse click. Can you please enable the plugin to do so too.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    View/Edit .RTF Files on Android

    Customer uses .RTF files as storage format for Word Documents. If you try to edit them (although this is an office standard file format!!!) you can not do that with Connections (editor). You can just create a simple rtf file e.g. with "wordpad" on...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Extend mobile navigation

    When I search in Connections mobile and get e.g. a wiki page as a result, it would be great to get a navigation option to the wiki overview. Reproduce Search something in mobile, click the wiki page. You get Title Wiki Name Pagetext The wiki n...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

    Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration
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