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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Activity stream preview should receive updates on file changes

When I post a file like libreoffice calc document or pdfs, it is placed in the activity stream with some preview image. The image is only generated on the first publish. So if I change the file, other people still see the outdated preview. This sh...
almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Create report file download per month

Customer believes it would be helpful to have a report with file download per month.
almost 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Numerical Characters Should be Translated When the Language is Changed

When a Connections user changes languages from English to a language such as Japanese or Arabic, the words get translated, but the numbers do not. For example, when looking at the Communities Members widget in the Overview page you see "View All (...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Show folders a file is shared with in the Desktop connecor "Sharing Details" window too.

Currently if a file is shared with one or more personal folders this is shown on the sharing tab in the Browser view but not shown on the "Sharing Details" option when using the Windows Explorer Desktop Connector (only shares with people or commun...
about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Option to disable the comments on Files

In our company, files are very often used for user instructions and as a knowledge archive.Especially with the instructions, many users ask questions and provide feedback in the comments on the file pages - which quickly becomes confusing. And a f...
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

Thumbnail not visible (actual mini images of uploaded files) for files (imgaes, pdf etc.), instead general mini image (of pdfs, jpeg) is visible

When you upload a file ( inside community Library ) general icon of PDF or JEPG is visible as thumbnail, it should be actual image of uploaded file. I've tested it on several environments like Connections 6 CR5,CR4 and on 5.5 versions also.
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

Allow every mobile view to be the startpage

You can add mobile extensions and set them as a default landingpage for the mobile app. But mobile extensions only allow HTTP/HTTPS URLs, so you can set only websites as landingpages. But if a want to set a special blog overview/entry as a default...
about 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

CircuitBreaker Messages Associated with Large Number of Calls

The customer is reporting a lot of CircuitBreaker entries in their logs. Development has stated that this is to be expected when a large number of calls is being made to a given application as it may result in timeouts. The Connections code doesn'...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

Make Connections Mobile app Intune enabled

Connections Mobile app should be Intune enabled so authentication for single sign-on can be automatically handled.
about 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement
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