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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    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

    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    External community members should also get notifications

    Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

    Stop to follow your own contents changed by yourself

    In many cases I get notified that I changed my own content. This is not helpful. Please surpress these kind of notifications.
    about 8 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Shared Files to be Included in Community Folder

    When files are shared by someone with a community, those files cannot be put into a community folder. It would be ideal if all files in a community (whether owned by the community or shared with the community) could appear in the same folder.
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    improve the maximum files displayed for Files list and Folders widgets

    Hello HCL Connections offering management, I would like to bring to your attention the product documentations provided for your product. Specifically, I am referring to the following links: - https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connect...
    over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Useful email notifications

    You have recently changed email notifications so they they are in rich text format (which looks nice) but has removed the direct links to threads and authors (removed functionality). Please put those back, and stop asking me to hunt around Connect...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 5 Future Consideration

    Support in Connections Docs for Table formulas

    A table is a feature in Excel that makes it easier to format and analyze a set of data points in a spreadsheet. Tables were introduced in Excel 2007 as an extension of the ‘Lists’ feature in the earlier versions. In Excel 2007 onwards, you can als...
    almost 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Printing of document from preview cuts off part of the document

    Printing a pdf document from the document preview will cut off the right margin of the document. Previewing the pdf document does show the complete document but when printing, the right margin is cut off, you can already see this in the print pr...
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Future Consideration

    Move/Copy files from the search result

    The Desktop Plugin is often used to move files from one location to another. I would like to be able to add any results from a file search to a community, provided I have the necessary permissions to do so.Please design the file search results so ...
    3 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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