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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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Preview file rather than download file when clicking on file name in wiki

As a Connections user, I want a file to be shown in Connections rather than being downloaded when I click on file name in Wiki because the purpose of Connections is to collaborate on files rather than distributing them to client computers. When a ...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

News overview shows blank thumbnail instead of a picture

If a file attachment is placed before a picture, a blank image will be shown. Should be changed to attachments icons will be ignored, so the real first image is shown.
over 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

Allow duplicate wiki page names

Currently it´s not possible to create a wiki page with an existing name. This issue was reported by several departments including mine.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Tagging without editing

It would be great if its possible to tag e.g. a blog post without having to edit the post. Just an extra field where you can add tags after having posted the article.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

Assign several To-Dos (of an Activity) at once to a user

Once you have created a longer activity, and stored it as an activity template, you cannot assign ALL to-dos at once to a certain user - you need to edit each each task, and enter that user. => Please provide for a feature that allows to assign...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

Improve trackback feature

It shall be possible to create a trackback without having to edit a post or having to save one's edits. Connections will leave the current page if you add a Trackback URL, and hence delete all the work you did to your Blog post before. You will H...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Embedding File Preview

I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

Advanced Search - search by multiple tags

In the Advanced search, it shall be possible to enter in the tag box multiple tags e.g. separating each tags by a blank/ space. While entering an other tag autocomplete shall work as for a single tag. Currently you can only enter one single tag in...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

File Preview shall be able to display XMind mind maps

When looking at Files, several file formats are supported, like .gif, .pptx, .docx, .pdf etc - but there is no support for displaying mind maps from e.g. XMind. Please include a preview function for .xmind files as well. We often use Xmind mindmap...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

List Blog authors shall only list of users that created a blog entry (and not also community owners)

In the list of blog authors in a community, I would like only real blog authors = user that created a blog post (not even edited) to be displayed here. Background: When using subcommunities the community owners are inherited from the parent comm...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement