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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    An option to allow all communities to be filtered by guest users

    In a Community Members tab there is an option to "Filter by: People from an outside organisation" to display guests from outside a community. This can only be used one community at a time to check guest users for a community. This enhancement requ...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

    There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Add "Open in App" button when a page is viewed on a mobile browser (Connections OnPrem)

    A user hits a link that renders a connections page. When that page comes from Connections Cloud, it's an universal link and the mobile app will be launched. Universal links are "cloud only" and cannot be used in onPrem installs. Idea: Why not gene...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Notify the community owner when member add/leave the community.

    Function request to send notification to the community owner when the member add/leave the community.Community owner would like to know the change of community member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Extend mobile navigation

    When I search in Connections mobile and get e.g. a wiki page as a result, it would be great to get a navigation option to the wiki overview. Reproduce Search something in mobile, click the wiki page. You get Title Wiki Name Pagetext The wiki n...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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