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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Sametime Meetings and Docs Integration

When you are editing a document on docs sometime you need to talk to other people. HCL Docs should have an action to start a meeting using Sametime Meetings, this away it's possible to connect the people to develop a document.
about 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Future Consideration

Pasting a Wiki URL into textbox.io is resolving the URL name as "Welcome to Wikis" instead of Wiki title.

Using ephox 3.5.1.14 and 3.7.0.10 there is an issue with pasting wiki link into the textbox.io. If you copy any Wiki URL and paste it into textbox.io it will automatically turn into "Welcome to Wikis". Which is misleading. Instead of "welcome..." ...
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

Add members to main and subcommunity simultaneously

Please make it possible to add members to the main and subcommunity in one go. Also, if someone asks for Access to a subcommunity you as owner should have the Chance to add him to the subcommunity. By this he is automatically in the main community.
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Extra field in the "All Community Files" list

We like to have an extra column in the "All Community Files" list so that we can see which of these files is shared in one or more folders (just the way we can see the # of views) We need this option to easily check: a) if all files are put in a f...
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

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 7 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Future Consideration

Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
almost 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

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 ...
about 7 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...
about 7 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...
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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