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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    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

    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

    Rename Pinned to Favorites in Files

    The "Pinned" term is confusing and incorrect. A pinned item usually refers to something that is automatically shown at the top of the list (like it is used in forums for instance) but in Files "Pinned" files are listed in a separate view. This beh...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Migration tool for folders/files of a user

    A migration solution to move folders/files from one user to another, without deleting that user, OR to other options such as a moving that content to a community or download everything to local disks in order to delete it from the user. The abilit...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    The ability to chose the extension of an exported profile photo

    In Connections V8, if exporting Profiles photos by using dump_photos_to_files.sh , the exported photos are with ".dat" format, this can be only used to import to another Profile database. Need Connections to have the ability to export Profile phot...
    7 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    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

    TinyMCE: @Mentions be available in all applications including Rich content app

    Not all Connections apps support @Mentions in every editor context. Rich content and community description are examples. The provided functiobality should be consitent over all apps
    over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    From the connections desktop plugin save file directly in shared folder

    Now it's only possible to save file in you own folders or communities. Our users wanted also save files in shared folders from colleagues.
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Access multiple accounts in the Connections Notes Plugin

    I'm requesting the ability to connect to more than one account within the Connections Notes plugin, for example, an on-prem account and a Cloud account. This is already available in the Connections Desktop plugin.
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

    Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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