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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    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Allow Microsoft file round tripping from Connections interface

    When a user finds an Office file from the Connections interface (either through files or communities) and then downloads that document from Connections and edits it in Office, he has to save it to his desktop and then "upload a new version". If th...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Already Exists

    Extend Administrator access roles to trash content

    Currently, only the community owner/business owner is able to view the deleted community from their trash. Administrators are unable to view a deleted community and thus cannot restore the community themselves from the trash unless they too are ow...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Add a community(members) to a survey

    When a (leap) survey is created, you can add users to it. In the previous survey version in Connections 6.5, you created a survey in a community, so the members could use the survey. In the leap version, you have to add the users. Many users are a...
    9 months ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment

    Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

    Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Most Used/followed Tags

    Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Improve general performance of the connections web application

    Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with textbox.io

    Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the textbox.io editor. If you edit a wiki page and click on + icon the "Bookmark" button is not available but exists in blogs, forums, etc. Our users request it. The users need the functionality ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    CentOS Support

    Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists

    Policy or Key Setting in HCL Connections for Mac for the Sync Folder

    We request a policy entry for the Sync Folder name in the HCL Connections for Mac plugin. Unfortunately here is no key listed https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/connectors/enduser/r_policies_prefs_for_mac.html. We are trying to setup a pli...
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration
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