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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Additional role “readers” for Community members

Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Windows Desktop Plugin should be able to search through every Connections folder with the search function

Currently it is only possible to search within the currently opened folder. The users expect that the search function checks the entire hierarchy instead of one folder. This is the way Windows is doing it so the users expect the same behavior from...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Notes Plugin for Connections Activities needs Community awareness

The Connections plugin for Notes misses in the Activities integration a critical feature. It's not "Community aware". Plugin cannot: Create a new activity in the context of a community Tasks created in a community activitiy (that is available when...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

ICXT - PDF export of tables to handle Landscape format

ICXT could only handle "Portrait" format, and no Landscape. This is because HCXT leverages open source tool wkhtmltopdf for PDF exporting. The wkhtmltopdf tool exports html content to portrait orientation by default. The idea for this new idea is ...
almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

A way to transfer the files from one community to another via WS-Admin

As an administrator, I want to transfer files from one community to another. All files in one community should be transferred to another empty community. So that the other community can be deleted.
about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Under Consideration

Show Custom Profile Fields in the App

Currently you can see in the app on a profile under "Info" only "Background" and "About Me". Why are not the custom fields displayed in the app? If you do not use the 2 default fields they will stay empty in the app. My wish would be that all fiel...
about 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Access multiple accounts in the Connections Notes Plugin

I'm requesting the ability to connect to more than one account within the Connections Notes plugin, for example, an on-prem account and a Cloud account. This is already available in the Connections Desktop plugin.
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Customize the Tailored Experience

Customer would like to have the ability to customize the Tailored Experience. (We need to change the font and CSS in the Create Community page for the application)
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration
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