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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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Adding or deleting Community member

Customer would like to Delete the community member by bulk Delete all the member except Business owner and owner from Community. "Cancel" confirmation button in adding member to Subcommunities checked "Add all members from the parent community." a...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Option to Export to Calendar all repeating events

When "Export to Calendar (.ics)" option is used within a repeating event, it should include all the repeating events so that they can be imported to the user's calendar at one time. Customer would like there to be the option to import all repeatin...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Alter default community events view so that the calendar view appears by default for members of a single specific community.

Instead of the default view being the events list, make the Calendar view to appear when switching to the events widget. It should be a community setting to select whether the list view or calendar view is the default.
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Blogs, Wikis and Files view counter increase on page reload

The view counters in blogs, wikis, and files can be increased by any user by just reloading the page/entry/file multiple times. There is no check on cookie or session ID. In blogs there is a config option that the original author is not counted in...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Share community file with other communities

Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

Integration with Microsoft Stream

I would like to be able to conveniently embed videos uploaded in Microsoft Stream from the Connections Editor. My most common workflow is: I upload a video to MS Stream and then embed it in a Connections blog, wiki or forum. It would be very helpf...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Add multi-client capability to Connections on-premise

We are hosting Connections on-prem for our company and our customers. Today we have the choice to put all the customers on one Cnx infrastructure or to provide a own infrastructure per customer. Both solutions have a lot of disadvantages. So my id...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists