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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    Thumbnail generation variables

    As an admin, I want the ability to check, configure, and reset the last rendition of the media file that the thumbnail generation task has processed. In the Connections code, the lastThumbnailEventFile variable stores the desired data. However, cu...
    almost 4 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Allow sharing a Blog from an activity stream post

    In Social Cloud environment customer want to share different entries from Connections (mainly blog entries) on their activity stream, and when they do this (they copy the url of the Blog and post it on their activity stream) they get a Log In mess...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    No option to create scrollbar in text editor

    Right now, you can only create scrollbars in tables with HTML scripts that use the <textarea> tags. Not everyone knows how to use HTML scripting well. It would be helpful to add a user-friendly option in the table menu or during table creati...
    4 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

    supply more detailed fix lists for Desktop and Notes plugin

    There are new plugins available for Notes and MS Desktop but unfortunately the Release Notes do not specify which fixes are contained. Can you please provide more details to allow a better decision if an upgrade is required. Desktop Plugin https:/...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Upload size of files

    Currently only a maximum of 2GB Supported. Please set the value to 5GB support. I know that you can change the value of the config.xml. However, this sometimes leads to errors because more than 2GB are not supported.
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Preview outlook email (saved as a file in files)

    If you create an email from outlook in connections, it is not possible to preview this as you can with word, excel etc. This makes Connections a cumbersome system to use
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Increase the font size

    Most sites have such small font size I can barely read announcements in blogs, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to select multiple community files for deletion

    Ability to select multiple community files for deletion
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    As an admin I want to see a list of all Communities in my Org (even restricted ones)

    Create API to enable creation of a list of all Communities, even private ones (without having to purchase a 3rd party tool).
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 5 Already Exists
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