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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    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    In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the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

    Full type-ahead functionality for search Community that contains the accented characters

    When searching for a Community via the catalog search, inputting any special character returns zero results. Currently a known product limitation but highly requested by customers as many languages incorporating special characters. Was provide a...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Ability to delete the reposts from your profile

    Users cannot delete a status reposting from their Connections profiles. If the admin deletes it, the original status is also gone. It will be useful to simply delete such reposts, because most of them are reposted by mystake.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Prevent syncing / download of 'restricted community' content

    We need to tighten the security on some specific communities that contain classified documents.Members should not be able to download or sync documents / files to any local storage outside the Connections app storage. Existing options (AllowExport...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Docs Editor for spreadsheet: Can Docs use formula to import data from another file.

    We have two xlsx files: 1.xlsx and 2.xlsx. In office, we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx. Pls see attached file: image1 shows content of 1.xlsx, while image2 shows how we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx....
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Docs.Viewer - support for hyperlinks to headings inside PDFs

    At the moment only links to headings inside a word document are working. If you convert this document into a PDF you can not use these links anymore.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Unbundle LibreOffice package from Docs install package and use the LibreOffice version package from the Operating system

    Unbundle the LibreOffice package from the Docs install package and create a documentation that would help customers to install the LibreOffice manually. Also, suggesting to allow customers to use the LibreOffice package of the operating system ins...
    over 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Create custom hyperlinks within the Activity Stream

    At the moment you are only able to paste a URL as hyperlink. It would be nice to paste a URL and then edit and format this hyperlink.It makes sense if you have inserted very long URLs and want to shorten them using formatting, according to the mot...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration
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