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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    Mouse over URL Links should display Page Previews in small popups

    There should be a simple option to use "Page Previews" when hovering over URL Links, just like in Wikipedia. When a Wiki/Blog reader hovers with their mouse over a URL Link, a small popup should display a content preview of the linked content. A ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    See IDEACNCTNS-I-601 - not fixed yet!

    EXIF information is ignored by Connections if a picture is taken on mobile and uploaded. Not fixed in current 6.0 CR on server side even if feedback indicates that there was some change in the mobile app to address this.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    RTE in status update (post text field)

    Currently the status won't accept rich text (that include formating, pictures, etc).
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Change Embedded WebView behavior

    For some deployments it would be helpful if a link that i tap on opens in in either Safari or another App. For some links still embedded is preferred. Idea: Create a domain whitelist for handing over to Operating System Example Scenario: Today...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Hope to sync folder in Connection Files for Connections Mobile APP

    In Connections Mobile APP, if opening operation menu for a file, then we can see "Sync" menu. If opening operation menu for a folder, then there isn't "Sync" menu. Customer hope to sync folder.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Additional Metrics Options

    To have additional metrics options to be able to pull from Connections Cloud such as number of people who have downloaded the pronounciation file, be able to look into who has accessed what or what people visit e.g xxxx community to look at trends...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

    The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    There should be a way to change the owner of "Protect area" in Docs Spreadsheet Editor.

    Translation: It is about the feature "Protect area" in Docs Spreadsheet Editor. The background of the scenario is about the customer has their own files repository integrated with Docs Editor and the file owner can be removed the access of their r...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

    Continue uploading files from large dataset even if one file fails to transfer

    When uploading a large number of files (for example, 2000 image files), if one file fails to upload, the upload process stops until the client manually continues the process. Request is for better functionality to 1) Retry the failed upload automa...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Remove File versions from version x like you can with Wiki's

    When you want to remove older versions of a file, you have to remove them one by one. It would be very helpful if we can remove multiple versions or have an option "Remove from version .. " !
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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