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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    243 VOTE

    Restore deleted Folders in Community

    In Connections Cloud communities. create a folder, and add some files. Then "accidentally" delete the folder. -> there is no listing of a Folder in the Files Trash section so the Client assumes the data is lost.The files are still listed in th...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 16 Assessment

    Ability to Embed Videos From Connections Files Appliacation in TinyMCE Editor

    Dear Team, The Problem: Currently, embedding a video from the HCL Connections Files application into a Blog, Wiki, or Activity requires users to manually generate an "embed code" and insert it via the TinyMCE "Media" plugin. This multi-step proces...
    16 days ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration
    146 VOTE

    @mention a Community or Groups in order to notify all members or groups

    Allow users to (at)mention communities in order to notify a big group of people/teams. Currenlty only mentioning of people is allowed.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 10 Future Consideration

    Different Landing page after login for external Users

    The core idea is to personalize the post-login experience for external users. By identifying a user's role (customer, vendor, etc.) and immediately redirecting them to a dedicated, role-specific landing page, systems enhance efficiency and securit...
    4 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
    119 VOTE

    Link Shortening

    Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

    Integrate Connections Files into Domino Leap Applications

    We do have some important Domino Leap applications for documentational purposes that contain "attachment fields". Currently this field type is just a regular upload/drop zone field where you can match 1 attachment to each field. If a new version o...
    about 2 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Option to disable the comments on Files-ensuring other features are working

    I am following up on an idea proposed prior to 2019, which can be found here: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1461 My goal is to implement this idea in the best possible way. I have made some progress by applying ...
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    adding exclusions for ldap groups in appregistry

    When writing a app in appreg it is possible to add exclusions for users. For these users the app is not applied. Currently the users have to be listed one by one in the app. It would be good to add exclusion for a ldap group if users for exclusion...
    10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals.

    Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals. If this were present in the native product, we would no longer need our FileNet deployment.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Insert Photo in comment

    Adding a photo to a comment is quite useful, for example, when trying to describe an error, it is better to attach a screen shot of the error than describe it by words.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration
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