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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    Desktop plug-in does not indicate that a file has been locked

    Once a file has been locked, there is no warning for the user. Actually, there is no way how to check whether a file is locked or unlocked - there is no status message and the pop-up menu shows both the lock and unlock options - at least in Mac OS...
    almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Hide Desktop Plugin for Windows icon option during installation

    Add an option to hide Desktop Plugin icon for Windows during installation process.
    almost 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Request to add Crop/Flip/Rotate image editing options to Tiny editors for HCL Connections

    In the Tiny Editors for HCL Connections 6.x, (TinyMCE and Textbox.io) the edit image options crop/rotate/flip are not available. Because of this, users are not able to properly edit images. Go into any Connections application such as Wikis, add an...
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Preview of images not working with uppercase JPG extensions with Connections Desktop Plug-ins

    If an image file gets uploaded with uppercase file type extension (.JPG/.PNG) through Connections Desktop Plug-ins preview of images are not available.The issue was reported for the preview displayed in the activity stream. For example, if an user...
    about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer / 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Connections Invite blacklist of domains which are not allowed to invite

    We have a large set of mail domains and our users don't understand that they aren't allowed to invite internal users within Invite. We don't onboard automatically to Connections, so users invite colleagues through Invite to speed up their access. ...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Kudos boards comment links to "undefined" in v2 newsletter

    The user got notified about a comment added to his card in his regularly newsletter. By clicking those link, we got an error because it links to https://cnxhost/boardsundefined
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

    When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Create report file download per month

    Customer believes it would be helpful to have a report with file download per month.
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

    Show folders a file is shared with in the Desktop connecor "Sharing Details" window too.

    Currently if a file is shared with one or more personal folders this is shown on the sharing tab in the Browser view but not shown on the "Sharing Details" option when using the Windows Explorer Desktop Connector (only shares with people or commun...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugin for Linux

    As a Linux user, I would love to see the desktop plugin made available for Linux systems as well. So that you can easily access your files without having to launch the browser. This should be possible in a similar way as under macOS? In recent tim...
    over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement
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