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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Ideas

    Display "shared with" information in files overviews

    Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review

    Better and more scalable

    Make Connections more scalable. We have some users who would like to work with a scaling of 150% Browser Scaling. Unfortunately, however, there is the problem that the header bar is no longer completely displayed. Modern website adapt to the diffe...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    TinyMCE Integration - Change the German Translation of "Permanent Pen" Label from "Textmarker" to "Kommentarstift"

    the TinyMCE Tool "permanentpen" is labeled as "textmarker" in German. Is there any way to change the labeling, so that it is named "Kommentarstift" for example? The "Permanent Pen" Tool, in German language, is labeled in HCL Notes and in HCL Verse...
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    [ConnX MT] Need to have the ability to customize Metrics UI

    Currently, Metrics UI can't be customized as its in written in hardcode. For example, if Connections deployed with features (such as Activities) disabled. It doesn't make sense if Metrics UI still display any column of Activities. Thus, it is need...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Security Issue w/ HCL Connections Component Managed Alias

    Per the customer: Specification of component-managed aliases on JAVA EE resources is prohibited. Currently this is a requirement and the customer's policy states: "Any Java EE application that runs within the cell can potentially access any Java...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Deleting folders doesn't delete files within that folder

    If a folder is deleted inside a Community, the files that were contained in the folder are not deleted. Instead they are still available in the "All files" section of the Community. Only the association of the file with the folder is being deleted...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Enhance Activities

    There is an opportunity to turn Activities into a more powerful project/task management tool: - add optional starting date for todos so they have a duration - add optional links between tasks (depends-on, conflicts-with,...) - add optional priorit...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enabled the option deep linking on mobile Connections on prem

    In case users are receiving mail notifications on IOS mail links to Connections app are not working anymore. Please support the mobile worker and improve this mobile experience. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connectionsmobile/admin/overview/conn_mobi...
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Enable/Allow AVIF Format

    Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Files - Allow to create Links to Files and Folders (e.g. at Desktop)

    It would be comfortable to have the opportunity to create a direct Folder or File-Link (e.g. at the Desktop) instead of clicking through Windows Explorer "communities - Community XY - Folders - ..." That function would increase acceptance in the B...
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement
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