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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    ODBC access to community stored files

    currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    use email to upload files in a community

    It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

    It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the Desktop Plugin: AAA.xlsx Abb.xlsx Acc.xlsx ADD.xlsx Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the W...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Public Community Folders and Files with restricted access

    HR department maintains a public community for employee information. Each year, some information such as health insurance coverage change so instead of replacing or deleting the files, they create an "archive" folder for that specific year within ...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Chat, Audio and Video communication when multiple users are editing the certain document.

    Chat, Audio and Video communication when multiple users are editing the certain document. Sametime integration
    almost 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Preview of Macro Documents

    When i upload an excel macro to connections, then i don't see the preview when i open it. I have to download the file to see the content. Please change the preview so that excel or word documents with macros are shown.
    almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    FTP Upload option for files on Wiki Pages

    I am planning to host Internal report on the Wiki Pages with text and pictures ( Initial page prepared / finalized with all text / Pictures / Graphs ) . These pictures ( Graphs / New Stats / numbers ) needs to be updated on regular basis ( Daily /...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve handling of deleted folders

    Files application works in a way that when you are working on that specific folder, and you open another application, and then go back to Files application, the system will redirect you to the last folder you visited. If someone deletes that folde...
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Microsoft Office shows UUID instead of folder names at the overview with recently opened files

    If I open for example Microsoft Word and want to open a recently used file it shows only the UUID of the folder instead of the name. This is very confusing since we have often the case that a file has the same name but is from different communitie...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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