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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    Currently only users with Administrator role can view metrics. Create different role that will allow users to just access metrics

    Give people rights to view Metrics of Connections Cloud without requiring that they are in the Administrator group.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Invite - customize the Self Service success page

    We want to customize the Self Service success page such that the "START COLLABORATING" button links to a different destination address. Please add this option unfortunately at this time this customization is not possible by default in Invite.
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Clarification

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks.

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks of other users. As of now, to delete an unwanted Bookmark, you have to run some WSAdmin Commands: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connecti...
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Blogs, Wikis and Files view counter increase on page reload

    The view counters in blogs, wikis, and files can be increased by any user by just reloading the page/entry/file multiple times. There is no check on cookie or session ID. In blogs there is a config option that the original author is not counted in...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    HCL Connections Touchpoint - "de-at", "de-de", and Other German "Localized" Language

    Touchpoint Application/Page, does not accept "localized" language codes. Every time a browser sends the language code like "de-de", "de-at", or similar, the Touchpoint Application loads in English, which is defined as default in "toucpoint.js".
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    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

    Option to have guest logon with a 2FA or any other option to force dual authentication

    At this moment guest are invited by a link to there email-address. However we can't be sure that we haven't made a typo or know if others then our guest have access to the emailbox. We like to have an option that the guest can only access the comm...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Moderation of wall posts/status updates and the respective comments

    So far the built-in moderation feature only covers blogs, forums, and files. Moderation of status updates and respective comments is not possible. - Flag as inappropriate is missing.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 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
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