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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12. Desktop Plugins

    Desktop Plugin - Suppress Sync Errors During Server Maintenance (Maintenance Mode)

    Idea: Implement a logic within the HCL Connections Desktop Plugin that detects when the server is in a designated "Maintenance State" (e.g. HTTP 503 or HTTP 540) and temporarily suppresses user-facing error pop-ups. User Story: From the Administra...
    8 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Thumbnails for files in Desktop plugin

    In the desktop plugin.. the plugin should display the thumbnails of images as the Windows explorer does. When browsing through files using MS Windows Explorer, previews are shown in the form of thumbnails for many content types. This includes almo...
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Windows Explorer Desktop PlugIn functions (not sync) for Mac

    For Windows the Explorer PlugIn is available. It allows to view the contents of the file repository and to download and upload files. An upload creates a new version and asks for a description of the changes . In Windows as well the synchronizatio...
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 6 Under Consideration

    On-prem support for Outlook Add-in using OIDC configured with Keycloak

    Requesting support for using the on-premises Outlook Add-in with Keycloak OIDC
    about 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Make notes plugin also support "mobile number" for connections Business Card integration. Now it only does "OfficeNumber".

    Make notes plugin also support mobile number for connections BC intergration. Now it only does OfficeNumber.
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Connections Community Name Update Discrepancy

    When you update the community name through the Connections page, the changes do not automatically reflect in the Connections desktop plugin. This discrepancy can lead to confusion among users, as they may see different community names on different...
    over 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

    Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    HCL Connections Desktop Plugin for DocsCorp

    The plugin gives you the option to save files from Word, Excel, Power Point directly in Connections. It would be super cool if DocsCorp also had the opportunity. Select files from communities, edit them in Docs Corp and save them back to the commu...
    almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

    Persistent Details View for Files

    Files are listed always in tiles. This can be changed to Details / List view in the Windows Explorer. But it always has to be switched back when changing a folder.
    4 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    File Sync not working for Community Files in Desktop Plug-in

    File Sync for communities is currently not supported. Only Personal Files are supported by Sync.Client has requested that an enhancement request be made to allow for Syncing of Community files
    almost 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration
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