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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    Administrator can turn off to share Files to externals.

    Many customers request the feature to prohibit user to share files to external for their security policy. Org admin should have the option to turn off to share files to externals.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Change the Hyperlink in the Newsletter from /homepage to /social

    In the newsletters "Daily Newsletter" and "Weekly Newsletter" the hyperlink at the bottom "Show all updates" shows to the Connections page https://<connections>/homepage. Why isn't the new much cooler site https://<connections>/social ...
    about 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 No Plans to Implement

    Open files directly in specific applications from within the browser

    If users are receiving file links, the files get previewed within the browser. If they then want to edit the file directly in the specific application and not in the online editor the file needs to be downloaded, saved in an intermediate place and...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Connections Windows Explorer Integration

    I would like: The possibility to Add To Folder from "My Files" section Also Copy/Paste directly under "My Folders" to upload new version or add a file. I would also like to access Files uploaded to Blogs via the Windows Explorer.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Select all Files

    Please offer an possibility for an user to select all files with one click, e.g. when a user tries to transfer ownership of his files (more then 2000) to another user. As the My Files page is a scrolling page, the user is forced to first scroll do...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Provide RSS/ATOM Feed links for Orient-me Pages

    The system does not provide RSS/ATOM feed links at the bottom of the page for any page of Orient Me. This function is not available in general.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    UX of URL preview in AS misleading, make the title more "Link-like"

    The UX of the URL preview that is shown in the Activity Stream is misleading if somebody posts a link to a webpage. At the moment it shows the title in black which needs to be clicked in order to visit the linked page. But right below the host (e....
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Advanced formatting in Powerpoint presentations doesn't display correctly in Docs

    When you open a Powerpoint presentation in Docs that has advanced formatting, such as a SmartArt Graphics list, it doesn't display correctly and you get the following popup message: "Display limitations This document contains advanced formatting...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Docs Document Templates.

    Docs Document Templates. Word, Excel, PowerPoint templates. Create and usage accordingly for new documents based on template
    almost 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Deleting automatically the Docs temp files instead of manual intervention

    We understand that when there is an issue with the Conversion cluster, it also affects the viewer. For instance, when content fails to render, storage space is still consumed. Is there a way to automatically clear the temporary directory, rather t...
    over 1 year ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review
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