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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    External user access cannot be restricted

    When you add external users in HCL Connections, you are unable to restrict their access. Specifically, it is not possible to provide read-only access to external users once they have been added to HCL Connections. This limitation poses a security ...
    9 months ago in  0 Needs Review

    Enhance dialog for invited guest

    Guests outside of company can be invited. Once they accept the invitation a dialog appears with some information to fill - like password. We want to extend this dialog by a phone number (or other LDAP fields) - which is mandatory for some companie...
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically. Allow a config setting to disable the pop-up after editing documents in office and check them in automatically instead of asking to check in the document
    5 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Capability to align users horizontally when using People Selector Widget

    When adding users to the People Selector Widget, the users are listed / aligned vertically. There is not an option to list / align the users horizontally.
    9 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Light Mode/Dark Mode View

    Users should be able to switch between light and dark mode, for example, in the header bar at the top right. Similar to what Activities Plus currently offers. In Activities Plus, users can switch between light and dark mode, depending on their pre...
    10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Preview outlook email (saved as a file in files)

    If you create an email from outlook in connections, it is not possible to preview this as you can with word, excel etc. This makes Connections a cumbersome system to use
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Custom Touchpoint Page

    The option to add your own page, i.e. a custom page, between the steps in Touchpoint.
    about 2 years ago in  0 Needs Review

    Pasting of URL which contains tags as search results redirects users to the user profiles

    After doing "All Content" search from the user profile and copied the URL of this, then share it to another user, the other user will be redirected to the user profile page instead of the search results page. This also happens when you clear brows...
    5 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Save the last setting on sorting files

    User can sort the files to be listed by Name, Updated, Views, Comments and Likes but it does not keep the settings. This setting should be kept so the user don´t need to change it everytime.
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Add hyperlink/link in HCL Connections logo in CNX8

    With the new Connections 8.0 update, some of the customizations are not working anymore. One of this is adding a hyperlink to the Connections logo. We would like to request this to be added in the future releases of Connecitons 8.0 via customizer ...
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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