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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    Improve information on "no access page"

    when I 'm on a wiki/page and a link is embedded that links to a different wiki where I don't have access, the "no access" page is rather useless: you don't have access ask the person who provided the link.... I don't know who created the first lin...
    6 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

    The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Events and Activities integration to Callendar, across multiple groups

    Goal of this idea is to be able to view and manage person's Events and Activity tasks at one place, across different groups. - It would be very useful if Activity tasks with set date was added to the calendar the same way as Event. - Showing ent...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

    Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Templates and forms for Wikis

    It would be great if we can get the function to implement a forms with fields (text, dropdown and so on) in wikis. We often have to fill in the same type of data a group of informations in wikis. So it would help a lot if we can implement a form w...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Sametime V10 and Sametime V11 Support for Connections Integration

    Only Sametime version 9 is currently supported as a Chat client for HCL Connections. Why not version 10? Or version 11 in the future?
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Ability to archive wikis

    Allow the ability to archive wikis. Once a wiki is not needed, it should be archived. However, if this wiki is needed again, it can be activated again so that the end user sees it. If you have a community for IT wikis, this feature would be more t...
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

    Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration
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