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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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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...
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

ADMX Templates for Desktop Plugins

To configure group policies in a Windows Domain, typically ADMX templates are used. However, for the desktop plugins, only old ADM Templates are available, which don't work well with current Windows versions. The old ADM Files were used with Group...
almost 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

MS Teams Awareness Icon

Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
almost 2 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

Restricted Community of only Viewer right

The customer wants an option that can set all member as viewer in a Community all at once. For example: 1) Create a restricted community. Creating a community to encourage collaboration https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/user/communities/t...
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Remove character limitation from Output condition value .

While running the web services job we are not able to track all status due to character limitation of 256. Increasing the length will help in tracking the various status of the job execution.
almost 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Needs Clarification

Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
almost 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

uid to show in Directory Search

Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
almost 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Make salutation in Invite as a config option

At the moment Invite calculate the salution for the start page from the displayname (split by space and use first part of the string). The displayname is not always formatted as "Givenname Lastname" it often contains parts like external, team, org...
almost 2 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

Tiny MCE - Remove Background attribute

When you use an Table in a Wiki Page, you could set the attribute "background= ...gif" in the html code. But this is only possible, if you use the CKEditor, if you have the TinyMCE editor active, this attribute will be removed when the HTML source...
almost 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review