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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MP4 volume should not be off by default

When you upload an mp4 video to the Communities Files widget the volume is off by default. This can be confusing to end users who report that it is sometimes difficult to locate the volume control. We would like the volume to be on by default.
over 7 years ago in 13. Other 3 Shipped

Lock file automatically in edition mode

Customer would like to have the ability that when edit a file in a community, its automatically locks yourself in order to avoid "crushed" information without having to manually press the "block" button?
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Shipped

Connections to be offered as one of the apps to share links with

The web contains so much valuable information which shall be shared with Connections users. E.g. a link to an interesting page. Other apps (Mail, Notes, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.) are being shown but not Connections. Is there a way to change that? Fo...
over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Shipped

please provide a unisex / gender neutral profile avatar picture

Right now the profiles which don't have an own profile picture are displayed with a MALE avatar irrespective of the profile's gender. We need this to be changed to a UNISEX avatar, so that it would be more appropriate.
almost 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Shipped

Comments within a PDF document are not shown within the mobile client PDF viewer.

Comments within a PDF document are not shown within the mobile client PDF viewer. In Connections Web they're displayed. Customer comments:It would make sense if somebody made a PDF with comments and shares it his colleagues can see the comments ...
about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Shipped

Tune out Community

Tune out Community Add the ability to Tune Out a Community, you would remain a member and still have access, but otherwise no Connections generated updates or e-mail would be sent to you. Details: This would be an extension of the Tune-out capab...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Shipped

OIDC Support for Connections

Currently OpenID Connect as authentication mechanism is not supported in Connections. However it has become a widely accepted standard mechanism for big applications, especially in corporate networks. Therefore we think, support for OIDC is cruc...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Shipped

Update the connections-integration-feature

Within HCL Connections it is possible to enable Sametime awareness and click-to-chat. When you use click-to-chat the old Sametime 9 web-ui opens, which is old and does not contain persistent chat history. Please update this feature fast (similar t...
over 3 years ago in  2 Shipped

Add Support for Windows Server 2019 for Docs

Based on detailed system requirements Windows 2019 is not supported, but this OS has been on the market for more than 1 year and clients do not apply old OS for new deployments. Manufacturers quickly adapt their products to be compatible with the ...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Shipped

Mobile App: Include same editor functionalities in forums as in blogs

When you are creating a blogpost in your connections mobile app you have the possibility to add images or highlight the font etc. In Forums you can only insert plain text and that's it. In the desktop version you have the same editor in both input...
about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Shipped
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