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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Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

Comeback for Connections Editor (mobile) app

The Connections Editor mobile app went EOS & EOL a while back: https://hclpnpsupport.hcltech.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022237&sys_kb_id=aab7bab71bd9fb4077761fc58d4bcb2d Still it is very useful for many users working mobi...
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

Improve notifications /feed in ios App

See screenshot attached done as of 2020-05-11: For all notifications in the mobile app (ios) The main notification part mentioned "xxx created ...." The key information for the notification in fact shall be the part below: yyy liked the post. This...
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

Highlights template selections - need preview of design before applying

When you access Highlights --> Customize --> Page Settings --> Show Advanced --> Inherit From, you're given a list of community UUIDs to select from. There is no preview of what you're selecting, so you have no way of evaluating design...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Highlights template selections - need better identification of template

After you've marked certain community Highlights displays as templates, you can inherit the design in other communities. The problem is that the drop down list where you make a selection only lists the UUIDs of the communities, and it doesn't show...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

Like comments in Orient Me

As a user I want to be able to like any comment (not content!) in Orient Me in order to avoid to open the original content, scroll down to comment and like it there.
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

User wants to delete own comment on status update in Orient Me

As a user I want to be able to delete a comment that I made to a status update in Orient Me because I might have changed my mind.
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration
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