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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Store a copy of the 'Mail to community' mails you send through Connections in the community itself

When using the 'Mail to community' it is impossible to see later which mails were send. It would be nice if a copy (pdf?) of these would be stored in the community files (or another location) as well so you can see which mails were send when and t...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Needs Clarification

Other LDAP Posibillities - Azure AD Support.

At the moment there are only LDAP options such as Active Directory, Domino LDAP, Open LDAP. We would like to have the option of connecting an Azure AD for external users as well.
over 4 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Already Exists

Make the engagement center and Tiny Editors part of the standard Connections that installs with everything else.

There are too many add-ons and third party tools making connections difficult to install, update, and migrate. Please consolidate all pieces owned my HCL in order to make the administration and maintenance less difficult.
about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Easy tagging people by clicking on existing tags

I can see which tags are assigned to a profile. If I want to contribute also and emphasize on an existing tag, I need to write it or copy it. My idea is to have the possibility to click on the tag itself and with that action I added it to the prof...
over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Teaser image of a blog in Connections mobile app

Right now you are able to open a list of Blogs (e.g. Community Blogs). If there are images posted in a blog, you have to first open this blog to be able to see them. (there are already descriptions in the overview for the title and the first few...
about 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

Desktoplugin allow cut and paste into Connections

Windows allows us to cut and paste files from folder A to folder B. When trying to cut and paste files into connections via the desktopplugin the files are only copied.It would be useful when the plugin allows the cut and paste, removing the origi...
about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

MS Teams Awareness Icon

Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
about 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

Custom Page for User

A self-assembled page. Our users would like a page that you can put together yourself. A page like Orient.Me only better configurable according to user's request with widgets. It would be best if the administrator could define the widgets that the...
about 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration
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