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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    Better Photo Viewer in Connections App!!!

    The current photo viewer in the app is not good. You have to click each photo individually. This is awkward and about 100 photos in a folder is not up to date! You can still install a photo viewer in the app automatically when slid to the right or...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    How does Connections decide if the Redis traffic should be sent directly or through the tunnel?

    Right now Connections has no implementations, but there is an ongoing development to Provide a configuration option that will allow customers to run all component pack traffic through TLS Implement TLS Enforcement for Component Pack Integratio...
    8 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

    f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

    If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

    It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

    A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Reply Function in Blog and Wiki Comments (HCL Connections App)

    It is currently not possible to reply to a colleague's blog or Wiki comments. I have to @Mention the person I want to reply with so that he receives a notification.
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 No Plans to Implement

    The ITM bar should remember the status, whether open or closed

    We have users who like to use the ITM Bar in V8 and some who don't. Those who don't like to use it hide it using the two arrows at the bottom in the browser. However, this setting is not retained. As soon as you refresh the browser page, the ITM B...
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Comeback for Connections Editor (mobile) app

    The Connections Editor mobile app went EOS & EOL a while back: https://hclpnpsupport.hcltech.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022237&sys_kb_id=aab7bab71bd9fb4077761fc58d4bcb2d Still it is very useful for many users working mobi...
    almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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