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 multiple cloud accounts in Connections Sync for Mac

    I am a member of multiple organizations in Connections Cloud, but the mac sync plugin only allows me to connect to one of them. When i try to add a second one it tells me that i will need to remove the server connection to the first one first, whi...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to restore data past 90 days and ability to be added for admin for below functionality.

    List of ALL communities belonging to company users. There is function for administrators to retrieve this List of Admin, and guest users for each community. There is function for administrators to retrieve this Last time each community was used ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    bsi guidlines, certification

    bsi guidlines, certification for Connections
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

    Customizer should work on ICEC pages

    The Customizer should work on all pages in Connections. There is a path for the customizer that says "global" and the user expects that this global would also include ICEC. But the customizer is not working on ICEC pages. But a general new design ...
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Add multi-client capability to Connections on-premise

    We are hosting Connections on-prem for our company and our customers. Today we have the choice to put all the customers on one Cnx infrastructure or to provide a own infrastructure per customer. Both solutions have a lot of disadvantages. So my id...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    It should be possible to vote for comments

    It should be possible to vote for comments. Especially in posts with lots of comments it would be nice to see the "hot" ones (e.g. youtube) or the possibility to filter for it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Add user by one klick to requested community via notification email

    Within the new notification email there is some missing functionality. With the old notification you are able to add a user to the requested community by one klick in the email. Now there is only the "open" button which opens the community. After ...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Add like possibility to comments

    Please add the possiblity to "like" a comment into the next release
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration
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