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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    Allow remove and re-assign ALL users content to someone else by one click

    The scenario of interest is how to reassign user content after they have left the company/organization. This means how can we change the content ownership such as files, communities, wikis, blogs, forums, etc. by one click. Allow to re-assign info...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Prohibit / Restrict blog creation

    There is no rule to prohibit Blog creation. For communities, for example, we can restrict a group of people that can create communities. There is no similar rule for Blogs.Customer request this feature to be added in a future version of the product.
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Support MS SQL for surveys

    As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

    What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Option to open specific Social Q&A contents from my mobile device

    Users would like to be able to open mobile links pointing to specific Social Q&A contents from mobile device since at the moment all mobile links only point to the start page of Social Q&A.
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Editor "Mode"

    Some users would like to have a dedicated Editor mode. On Wikis, Blogs, ICEC Pages, basically all Connections Applications and Pages where they have editor access, the buttons like "Edit" should be hidden. Only when the users activate die "Edit" f...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add support of OnlyOffice

    It is possible to integrate OnlyOffice in Connections. https://www.onlyoffice.com/fr/
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Let me know when a survey is taken

    I see no option to receive an email or notifaction when someone took the time to respond to a survey I made
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Enlarging the number of excel data (XLSX) which can be previewed

    The file viewer should allow a bigger amount to data to be previewed. That is we would like to enhance the 1024 column limitation Currently supported features : https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022015
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Displayname of external user in a survey answer

    Hello is it possible to see the Displayname of the external user against the loginname or emailadresse in a survey answer in the webfrontend.
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement
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