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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External user access cannot be restricted

When you add external users in HCL Connections, you are unable to restrict their access. Specifically, it is not possible to provide read-only access to external users once they have been added to HCL Connections. This limitation poses a security ...
3 months ago in  0 Needs Review

Preview outlook email (saved as a file in files)

If you create an email from outlook in connections, it is not possible to preview this as you can with word, excel etc. This makes Connections a cumbersome system to use
10 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Add /touchpoint to the customizer paths

Making sure customizer can intercept the /touchpoint path. THat would allow for example to test customizer for a small population before going live with it using Match statements, or to customize it even further from a UI perspective
almost 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Show password rule in Invite registration and Password change dialog

It would be great to show the needed password rule in the Invite registration dialog and Password reset dialog, so Users know what they have to use. In the end the provided password should be validated before it is sent to the server to prevent th...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 4 In Development

CEC News widget - add filter of blog posts with a specific tag

The common News widgets (list, slider) do not allow to filter Blog posts by a specific tag. They only allow to display a specific blog post or all current blog posts of a community. Please enhance.
over 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Assessment

Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

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 re...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

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!
almost 6 years ago in 13. Other 5 Assessment

Adding touchpoint customization

Making customization possible so that for example:- new people can "invite for my network" instead of only following.- add information to "background"- add links to "blog link"
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement
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