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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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admin dashboard

I feel that so far Connections lack dashboard for Administrator to view the status how the Connections perform. Example, always Admin need to know what Communities so far created, public/private. Administrator no way to manage the file size quota ...
about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Future Consideration

Ability to configure default view in Connections Desktop Plug-in

When going to My files in the Connectons desktop plugin, we default to the Tiles view. You can change to the list, details, content etc. views. However, this is not presevered ... so you have to change the view everytime. In Windows Explorer, you ...
over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Add a Community homepage widget to show the community status updates on the homepage too

Community status updates are a handy and important option to inform users of what's going on in a community. However, they are not shown on the community homepage (unless you change the default homepage to the status updates view) and therefore ha...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Trash feature in Blogs

There is currently no built in mechanism to recover accidentally deleted data in Blogs. This request is for a trash feature where end users would be able to restore their own content. A possible implementation could also include purging content af...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Improve general performance of the connections web application

Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Enable sharing of folders on lower levels

Sharing of folders is only possible on highest level. As an owner you need to give access to the parent folder in order to make people access the ones on lower hierarchies. We would like to be able to share a folder from personal space on a lower ...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to create wiki pages based on templates. Possible with ckeditor, please enable as minimum.

Possibility to create wiki pages based on templates. Possible with ckeditor, please enable as minimum.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

Allow Microsoft file round tripping from Connections interface

When a user finds an Office file from the Connections interface (either through files or communities) and then downloads that document from Connections and edits it in Office, he has to save it to his desktop and then "upload a new version". If th...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Already Exists

Orient Me: Make it possible to add a public community you neither follow nor are a member of to the "Important To Me" bar.

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:In Orient Me, it's not possible to add communities to Important To Me (ITM) bar that you are not a member of. STEPS TO REPRODUCE:1. Go into orient me and click on the + button in the Important to me bar.2. Search for a commun...
over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Already Exists

Provide Docs templates to start with

please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement