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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Templates and forms for Wikis

It would be great if we can get the function to implement a forms with fields (text, dropdown and so on) in wikis. We often have to fill in the same type of data a group of informations in wikis. So it would help a lot if we can implement a form w...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

Sametime V10 and Sametime V11 Support for Connections Integration

Only Sametime version 9 is currently supported as a Chat client for HCL Connections. Why not version 10? Or version 11 in the future?
almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

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...
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

"Find a member" functionality within mobile app

If you access the members section of a community via a web browser, you are able to use "Find a Member" to search for a member without having to navigate through the entire member list. You do not have the same functionality in the mobile app. Ins...
over 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Disable link recognition in Activitystream and Mail notifications

When you create a post (blog, forum, wiki) and add some project number or JIRA ticket number in the beginning, linked to your Helpdesk, or other system, this link gets removed in the mail notification and activity stream. When your JIRA number now...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

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

Display of Web Reports "Last Report Time" in CSV or PDF should default to local time instead of GMT time

The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Time" field is local timezone but when exported to CSV or to PDF, the times in "Last Report Time" field in file are GMT. The timestamp format displayed in Web Reports of "Last Report Ti...
over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

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

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
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