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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    Spreadsheet to automatically filter all data including empty spaces in between data

    When you automatically filter data in a column, it would only filter all the data until the first blank space of the column. This behavior is different from openoffice where it can filter all data even if there are blank spaces in between. (WPS Sp...
    9 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

    Multi file delete should be possible for files using the web frontend

    Currently files have to be deleted one by one from the files widget of a community. Offering delete functionality for multi select files analogous to multi select download using the web frontend of Connections would be helpful to organize files an...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Make community surveys visible to non-members in public communities.

    A public community is accesible by every member. Even files, libraries, wikis etc. of this community are accesible, except Community-Surveys. This should be accessible without being a member of a public community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Owners of a Community should not automatically be owners of a Sub-Community

    When someone is the owner of a parent community, he cannot be removed from a subcommunity.We think that should be possible.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Preview files on mobile

    Currently the mobile app downloads full file in order to render its preview. This is time consuming and megabytes of data are transfered unnecessarily. The generated preview is even not cached so you have to download the full file over and over if...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Under Consideration

    Capability to align users horizontally when using People Selector Widget

    When adding users to the People Selector Widget, the users are listed / aligned vertically. There is not an option to list / align the users horizontally.
    10 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    More Performance for ICEC

    The Engagement Center is a fantastic solution if you also use connections as an intranet platform. Unfortunately, the widgets in icec load very slowly. The performance should be increased here.
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Support Mobile OAuth for Activities Plus or Kudos Boards in Connections

    Base on https://help.hcl-software.com/connectionsmobile/admin/overview/oauth2-software-requirements.html Activities Plus or Kudos Boards in Connections does not currently support mobile OAuth. Need HCL Connections to support Moible Oauth for Activ...
    5 months ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Automatically archive old communities

    Implement the function to automatically archive communities not used/changed for a specific time.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration
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