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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allow resize the left sidebar also for community files

For community files we need the possibility to resize the left sidebar. Sometimes the Folder names are long and the user only see a part of the folder name and .... This is not very user friendly. The feature to resize the left sidebar (navigation...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Ability to cancel out of More selection on iOS

If you click the "More" option on bottom right of iOS app, you can't undo the choice. You're forced to make a new selection. It would be better to be able to cancel out of the menu to go back to where you were. Otherwise, you lose context. Recomme...
almost 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

Improved handling of community wiki search results on mobile

This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. Search results should be presented in a more clear manner for community wiki results. Usability Issue 1 - Search result shows "Community Wiki" inste...
almost 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
almost 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

Make Blog URLs immutable

As a connections user, I want to be able to change the title of a blog post without the link to it changing, so that I can add permanent links to it from other parts of Connections or the company intranet. Suggested solution: Change the URL addres...
8 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.

Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.
over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Make "Files Folder Tree" scalable

With us, the question and the desire to scale up the folder structure in the Files application always comes up. This is possible in the Wikis application since Version 6CR5. Users can move the left navigation bar independently of the actual wiki c...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Enable or Disable Change Tracking by REST API or a param

As default, Change tracking is disabled, and it is enabled or disabled by Owner through UI only. But most of the time, When a user shared a file to his manager or others to edit ,He hope to enable Change tracking by a rest param , so he can flexib...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration
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