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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Add ability to create a Folder Link to a Community Folder inside Activities

Behavior when attempting to Create a Folder Link vs Creating a File Link are different. Folder Link does not give the option to link a folder that is contained within the same Community. Files Link does allow for linking of file contained within s...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Set a Connections Event notification/reminder date & time

We request that when creating an event that you can set a notification/reminder at certain dates and times, so the system will automatically send these out to participants at the specified reminder time. Also if an event is created with no reminde...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Migration tool for folders/files of a user

A migration solution to move folders/files from one user to another, without deleting that user, OR to other options such as a moving that content to a community or download everything to local disks in order to delete it from the user. The abilit...
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under 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 ...
over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

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

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

Stopping legacy Activities application

There is nothing in the documentation that we could find that would indicate that it is possible to run Boards without Activities running. It seems as though you should be able to, but it turns out you can't. Is there any way of stopping legacy Ac...
7 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

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

Default time zone for user profile

User profile time zones are set to (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West by default. Can there by a quick and easy manner to configurable option to set a default time zone for all user profiles, i.e. "(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"...
7 months ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review
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