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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    Default time zone for user profile

    User profile time zones are set to (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West by default. Can there by a quick and easy manner to configurable option to set a default time zone for all user profiles, i.e. "(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"...
    about 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Sort To-Do-Items in Activities

    Actually the list of to-do-items in a community cannot be sorted by any field. But to work with this tool, it should be possible to sort the items, eg. according to the due date. You only see the date of creating a to-do-item, the creator and the ...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    The tag cloud in a wiki shall behave as in forum/blog with the possibility to refine with related tags

    If you filter in a wiki by tag, you can not view the related tags to refine - like in forum or blog. The tag cloud is not visible any more when you search in a wiki by tags. Same UI as for forum and blog shall be implemented in Wiki.
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    @mention from an Activity Entry notification mail

    Please correct the @mention in activities updates' mail notification. 1. Create an Activity. (Standalone or Community one, it does not matter)2. Add another user as a Member. 3. Create a new Entry. 4. In the Description field, add an @mention fo...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Templates in all components

    As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    ADMX Templates for Desktop Plugins

    To configure group policies in a Windows Domain, typically ADMX templates are used. However, for the desktop plugins, only old ADM Templates are available, which don't work well with current Windows versions. The old ADM Files were used with Group...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugins: automatically clean up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing.

    CHANGE REQUEST: Build something into a new version of the installer which automatically cleans up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing. REASON FOR CHANGE:Customer has had problems getti...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

    With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to upgrade CKEditor while keeping Connections version

    It'd be helpful if there is a way to upgrade CKEditor while keeping the Connections version. Currently, the only way to upgrade CKEditor is to upgrade the entire Connections deployment.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Change default value of overwriting a newer version via desktop-plugin

    In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the user that the server file has changed since the us...
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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