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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    Update the Owner of the Community to a Group name.

    Use Case: Customer is using the HCL connections product, and they have communities created inside HCL Connections products. The user with the owner and administrator privileges for these communities have left the organization and their account fro...
    over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Make Link Headlines easier to read

    We noticed in the new view of Bosch Connect Feed, there is a property in every "Title" of every post. This does not allow us to read at a pace which we would like. example: Image 1 It would be nice to remove the property: Image 2 This way the outc...
    about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Connections to support .wmv extension on Files Preview

    Customer would like to have ability the Preview files with extension .wmv on Files application. As per the note in the documentation below "The supported file formats are listed in this file and appear to be editable; however any changes to the fo...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    ODBC access to community stored files

    currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    use email to upload files in a community

    It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

    It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

    The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    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

    External Access to Existing communties

    Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

    When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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