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...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Needs Clarification

    Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

    It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    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.
    over 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 ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    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 ...
    over 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...
    over 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...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Fix 'Recently Visited' Community Filter

    The 'Recently Visited' Filter in My Communities seems not to work properly. Instead of the Communities I have visited recently, it shows the ones who hve been updated recently just as the 'Recently Updated' Filter does. It would be nice to see tha...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Already Exists

    DELETE Button in Files App for multiple files

    Hello, In the Files application it is not possible to delete multiple files via Web UI. You have to click on the files individually and say "Delete". This is so tiring and not really nice with almost 200 files. Please add a "Delete" button next to...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Assessment

    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...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration
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