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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    Ability to restore data past 90 days and ability to be added for admin for below functionality.

    List of ALL communities belonging to company users. There is function for administrators to retrieve this List of Admin, and guest users for each community. There is function for administrators to retrieve this Last time each community was used ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

    Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

    Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

    A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Share community file with other communities

    Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to save interesting update/event in Orient Me like on old homepage

    On the old homepage it was possible to save an interesting status update or any other event within the activity stream in order to read it later or to just bookmark it for further reference. As a user I want to have the same possibility in Orient Me.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    No spell checker available in Orient Me while writing a status update

    As a user I want to have a spell checker available while I write a status update in Orient Me. This could be for sure just the browser embedded spell checker.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Not possible to filter for components (forum, wiki, blog) in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to filter or narrow down the events/activities in Orient Me by component (forum, wiki, blog) so that it is more easier for me to find relevant content. Use case: I know somebody posted an interesting blog post recently,...
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add functionality to follow or search tags in Orient-Me

    It is not possible to follow tags anymore. Also, tags are not clickable and searchable.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration
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