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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    Actiance Vantage (connections compliance) should support Connections Surveys

    For companies with strict regulatory requirements regarding the interactions in/use of connections, like banks and such, all connections components they use should be covered by their compliance product(s). At the moment Actiance Vantage does not ...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Customer to have links open in new tabs

    The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review

    Option to export all participants of an event

    At the moment on our Connections 5.5 onprem system as well as in the Connections Social Cloud there is no feature or option to export the participants list of an community event. Via API calls we can develop a simple workaround but it would be nic...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    allow an integrated search covering all cnx originated and 3rd party attached content in a single (fulltext) search

    How to add to the seedlist of CNX cloud? Which search tech should we use to be prepared? Solr? Elasticsearch? How will the integration look like?
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Add ability to create a Folder Link to a Community Folder inside Activities

    Behavior when attempting to Create a Folder Link vs Creating a File Link are different. Folder Link does not give the option to link a folder that is contained within the same Community. Files Link does allow for linking of file contained within s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    LEAP Integration in HCL Connections V8 - Access Rights

    Good day, With V8 it is possible to integrate apps into communities via HCL Leap using iFrame widgets. Unfortunately there is a problem with this. If you want to share the app only with a specific community, you can only select individual users o...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Additional role “readers” for Community members

    Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Windows Desktop Plugin should be able to search through every Connections folder with the search function

    Currently it is only possible to search within the currently opened folder. The users expect that the search function checks the entire hierarchy instead of one folder. This is the way Windows is doing it so the users expect the same behavior from...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Registration Link Invite - Expiration date

    The validity of the registration link of Invite should be customizable for the administrator in the selfregistration-config.xml.
    about 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Assessment

    A way to transfer the files from one community to another via WS-Admin

    As an administrator, I want to transfer files from one community to another. All files in one community should be transferred to another empty community. So that the other community can be deleted.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Under Consideration
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