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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External user access cannot be restricted

When you add external users in HCL Connections, you are unable to restrict their access. Specifically, it is not possible to provide read-only access to external users once they have been added to HCL Connections. This limitation poses a security ...
2 months ago in  0 Needs Review

Add possibility edit status updates

Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

External community members should also get notifications

Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

Stop to follow your own contents changed by yourself

In many cases I get notified that I changed my own content. This is not helpful. Please surpress these kind of notifications.
about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Future Consideration

Allow Shared Files to be Included in Community Folder

When files are shared by someone with a community, those files cannot be put into a community folder. It would be ideal if all files in a community (whether owned by the community or shared with the community) could appear in the same folder.
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

Useful email notifications

You have recently changed email notifications so they they are in rich text format (which looks nice) but has removed the direct links to threads and authors (removed functionality). Please put those back, and stop asking me to hunt around Connect...
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 5 Future Consideration

Support in Connections Docs for Table formulas

A table is a feature in Excel that makes it easier to format and analyze a set of data points in a spreadsheet. Tables were introduced in Excel 2007 as an extension of the ‘Lists’ feature in the earlier versions. In Excel 2007 onwards, you can als...
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration
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