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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Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Connections v8.0 reposition or eliminate tags widget in Community Wikis

In the v8.0 UI, stand-alone and community Wikis have 3 column layout, table of contents (left), Wiki body (center), and widgets, i.e. Tags (right). In prior versions, the widgets were under the table of contents on the left side. This allows for t...
over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Add Content Translation Features in the Connections Mobile Application

In the web client, users can utilize third-party solutions like Reverso to translate content in HCL Connections: "https://www.corporate-translation.reverso.com/hcl-connections." Please add the same capability to the HCL Connections mobile applica...
9 months ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

Add Sametime Chat Features to the Connections Mobile Application

Our users are missing chat functionality in the HCL Connections mobile application.Please integrate Sametime Chat features directly into the HCL Connections mobile app, as this will significantly enhance user adoption on our site. Many other colla...
9 months ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

Right click on any place of the Community card, it should display open Community in new tab

On Communities List. if right click on a Community name, it shows "Open Link in New Tab". However, when right click on some other place of the Community card, it shows "Open Image in New Tab". Need "Open Link in New Tab" while right click on Commu...
9 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
almost 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

Add Connections content to HCLSoftware U

Please add Connections content to HCLSoftware U. Connections is really versatile, we need extensive examples / howto's / best practices / certification Because the posibilities are endless, starting users would immensely benefit from more examples...
over 1 year ago in 14. Documentation 0 Needs Review

Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files

Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files.
9 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Feature to remove specific nodes under "HCL Connections" in Windows Explorer

According to https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connectors/enduser/r_files_prefs_and_policies_windows.html it is possible to configure the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins via registry entries and disable, for example Activities functionali...
over 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review
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