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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    Additional role “readers” for Community members

    Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Collapsible sections should maintain selection after changing display

    Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

    Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Windows Desktop Plugin should be able to search through every Connections folder with the search function

    Currently it is only possible to search within the currently opened folder. The users expect that the search function checks the entire hierarchy instead of one folder. This is the way Windows is doing it so the users expect the same behavior from...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    From the connections desktop plugin save file directly in shared folder

    Now it's only possible to save file in you own folders or communities. Our users wanted also save files in shared folders from colleagues.
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Keep community logo at original resolution

    The image uploaded as a community logo gets resized to fit in 110x110 square. Requesting alternate handling to maintain original resolution
    over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Access multiple accounts in the Connections Notes Plugin

    I'm requesting the ability to connect to more than one account within the Connections Notes plugin, for example, an on-prem account and a Cloud account. This is already available in the Connections Desktop plugin.
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

    Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Report of Communities, Files and Mail (Size Used)

    Customer would like to have a report with the information below: 1) Users X the used size of mailbox 2) Users X the used size of their share of connections Files 3) Listing Active Communities in the enterprise, with the size used by each.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Community description defined on a community template should be inherited on newly created communities

    A newly created community should contain the community description defined on a community template or customers should have the option to obtain the description defined in the template.
    about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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