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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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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.
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

Thumbnail generation variables

As an admin, I want the ability to check, configure, and reset the last rendition of the media file that the thumbnail generation task has processed. In the Connections code, the lastThumbnailEventFile variable stores the desired data. However, cu...
over 2 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

HCL Connections Desktop Plugin for DocsCorp

The plugin gives you the option to save files from Word, Excel, Power Point directly in Connections. It would be super cool if DocsCorp also had the opportunity. Select files from communities, edit them in Docs Corp and save them back to the commu...
over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

Remember Last Filter setting in Community Overview

Because the "My communities" overview shows every community that you visited once. This overview show many communities. There is a filter option to filter on "I am owner". But you need to set that filter every time you go to communities. Our ...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

support for HCL Connections Mail Plug-in to work with Microsoft 365 Mail

We would like to use the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in with O365. Unfortunately this is not supported at this time. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/connectionsmail/v6.5/Deploying/icm_admin.html Please enhance Connections Mail Plug-in support...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Expiration Date for Wikis and Files

We miss the function of setting an expiration date. That's very useful. Especially if a document or a wiki is out of date you will be notified by e-mail that you have to create a more recent version. Great NEED with us!
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 5 Assessment

Automatically remove inactive members of the community.

When a member remove from LDAP, the member remain in community as inactive. Currently, here are some ways to remove a user from the community. 1. Community administrator need to remove each inactive user from community UI. or 2. It needs to remove...
almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration