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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    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH)

    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH) - To use CEPH in place of NFS. - To use default security privileges by OpenShift. - To use UID assigned by OpenShift.
    about 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    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

    Restricted Community of only Viewer right

    The customer wants an option that can set all member as viewer in a Community all at once. For example: 1) Create a restricted community. Creating a community to encourage collaboration https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/user/communities/t...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Do not translate highlights

    The new app highlight is translated into German with "Schwerpunkte". The automatic translation of the Knowlegde Center translates it into "Besondere Funktionen" Do you have to translate the term? The "Tags" have not been translated. It's good that...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    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

    community owner/member list report

    That would be great, if all users could run a report, which lists, in which communities a certain person is a member or owner. (We have to validate our accesses on a quarterly basis, so this kind of report would be much appreciated!)
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Missleading error message - when a library limit defined by policy is being hit - either by upload or update of an existing file - the error message should be meaningful

    During uploading a new version of file to Connections from the File preview if user is going to break his personal library limit, he is getting an error: "Cannot save a new file version. Please try again later." It is missleading. Users are ge...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

    Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration
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