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 the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    View/Edit .RTF Files on Android

    Customer uses .RTF files as storage format for Word Documents. If you try to edit them (although this is an office standard file format!!!) you can not do that with Connections (editor). You can just create a simple rtf file e.g. with "wordpad" on...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Extend mobile navigation

    When I search in Connections mobile and get e.g. a wiki page as a result, it would be great to get a navigation option to the wiki overview. Reproduce Search something in mobile, click the wiki page. You get Title Wiki Name Pagetext The wiki n...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Sync_all_dns by LDAP Group

    An organization has a large number of LDAP profiles, which causes sync_all_dns to take an extended period to run. However, only a subset of users in one LDAP group use Connections. Sync_all_dns would be much more efficient if it could be run again...
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

    Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Group/Stack events in activity stream

    If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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