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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How does Connections decide if the Redis traffic should be sent directly or through the tunnel?

Right now Connections has no implementations, but there is an ongoing development to Provide a configuration option that will allow customers to run all component pack traffic through TLS Implement TLS Enforcement for Component Pack Integratio...
3 months ago in 13. Other 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

Fix assigning community template admin roles

Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

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
almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

Embed a video file in a blog

Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
10 months ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review

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
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