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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    Publish an update in Connections and MS Teams simultaneously

    It would be great if the user could publish updates across multiple channels at the same time, e.g. on Connections and MS Teams. The user would save time and energy if he had to create an update only once.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Update prerequisits of Python 2.7 for Docs

    Docs Installer needs Python 2.7 which is eol since over an year now and this was already announced 6 years ago! When can we expect an update to an uptodate version of Python?
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 No Plans to Implement

    Let me choose the audience when posting a status update from the Activity Stream

    Within the mobile app I can choose the target audience of a status update directly when posting it. In the web UI I have to first open the Community and post it there.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Searching for Numbers in Quickresults not working as expected

    When searching for numbers in the quickresults sidebar, no documents are found in quick search. For example if a file name starts with numericals like 11604_test.doc, and if we search with 11604* for doc, it is not listed in the search icon. If th...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    The "password reset" feature should also work for internal users

    The ability to reset a password from the login page should also work for internal users and not only for external/guest users. Currently it does sort of work, but internal users get an error when they did change their password
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Teaser image of a blog in Connections mobile app

    Right now you are able to open a list of Blogs (e.g. Community Blogs). If there are images posted in a blog, you have to first open this blog to be able to see them. (there are already descriptions in the overview for the title and the first few...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Desktoplugin allow cut and paste into Connections

    Windows allows us to cut and paste files from folder A to folder B. When trying to cut and paste files into connections via the desktopplugin the files are only copied.It would be useful when the plugin allows the cut and paste, removing the origi...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    "Create Peer" and "Create Child" wiki option is buried deep inside Mobile app options, it should be shown directly on wiki section

    Currently when we click on wiki and click on 3 dots option on top right corner of the mobile screen ( on IOS ) we will see one of the option as "Add"clicking on it then it will take you to further to see "create Peer" "create Child" If we can brin...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Notification settings can currently only be changed in the desktop version

    Notification settings should also be adjustable in the app.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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