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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Sort Date DD.MM.YYYY Custom Filter in Docs

Its not possible to sort with a custom filter on spreadsheets "is greater than" or "is less than" with dates (DD.MM.YYYY).
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Highlights template selections - need preview of design before applying

When you access Highlights --> Customize --> Page Settings --> Show Advanced --> Inherit From, you're given a list of community UUIDs to select from. There is no preview of what you're selecting, so you have no way of evaluating design...
about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Highlights template selections - need better identification of template

After you've marked certain community Highlights displays as templates, you can inherit the design in other communities. The problem is that the drop down list where you make a selection only lists the UUIDs of the communities, and it doesn't show...
about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
almost 2 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Windows Desktop plugin file search option

When using the desktop plugin integration from Windows File explorer and try to search for a file in Connections files you can only use this form of search sentence : PartOfFilename* and not *artOfFilename* to find files. When you use the search i...
about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Short Community links shall be editable

In a Community-> Advanced Access Features you can provide a short name for short/ nice community link Unfortunately you can not edit this property if the community has subcommunities. This is a partially implemented/ not finished feature to m...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

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 v8.0 reposition or eliminate tags widget in Community Wikis

In the v8.0 UI, stand-alone and community Wikis have 3 column layout, table of contents (left), Wiki body (center), and widgets, i.e. Tags (right). In prior versions, the widgets were under the table of contents on the left side. This allows for t...
about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review
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