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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    Allow documents to be checked in automatically

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically. Allow a config setting to disable the pop-up after editing documents in office and check them in automatically instead of asking to check in the document
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    New employees should automatically follow administrator-defined communitys

    New employees should automatically follow multiple communities. These communities are to be defined by the administrator.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Already Exists

    Blogs - Add simple approval workflow

    in corporate communications it might b e necessary that blog entries are approved before these are published. Add a simple workflow for this.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Option to create and edit diagrams in Wikis, Blogs and Forums

    Adding diagrams to Blog posts and Wiki documents as living objects (edit and change directly from the Connections editor) would extend the possibilities of working together on text and diagrams without the need of installed software and export thi...
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Improve Blogs UI for ease of navigation/use by end users

    Requesting these changes to the Blogs UI as the current design is not intuitive nor efficient for end users. Once a draft blog is composed saved & closed there is no straight forward way of getting back the draft. For the community owner(s), t...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

    In Community Activities remove the option to make other users readers when the community is public anyway

    The security in Community Activities in public & moderated communities is confusing and implies a level of security that isn't valid: Working for a customer on creating some documentation I found the following. In Community Activities you hav...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Support Codesample Plugin from TinyMCE!

    Although it is possible to activate the external plug-in "Codesampler" in the Tiny Editor, it does not work correctly. For example, after saving, wikis do not display the formatting correctly. That looks like a bug. Please provide support here so ...
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Future Consideration

    Plugin for Chrome and Edge

    There is a plugin for firefox, but not for Chrome or Edge. Please provide one for these browsers.
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 No Plans to Implement

    Move Blogs configuration properties to config file or gatekeeper

    Currently, many of the settings for blogs are in a settings file in the ear file. On every Cfix and or upgrade, this get's overwritten. Please move them to gatekeeper or LC_Config folder. Connections is hard enough to maintain as it is, having to ...
    about 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Customer request "Paste Options" feature when editing Excel files

    In office, when you edit excel files, and copy/paste a grid with formula(see image1 as an example). You can choose paste options->paste special to select which content you want to paste: formula or value(See image2, image3). This feature is not...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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