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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    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration

    Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

    It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Fix assigning community template admin roles

    Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    METRICS BY USER

    As a LOB user, I want to have metrics by user. For example: I want to understand all access by a single user ((logins, pages, communities, downloads, likes etc)) or I want to understand all user access of my all user in connections (logins, pages,...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

    Native German Language Support for Emoji Search in TinyMCE

    1. Summary of Request We are requesting native support for German language emoji searches within the TinyMCE editor in HCL Connections. Currently, users are unable to search for emojis using German terminology, which limits usability for our Germa...
    7 months ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Allow users to remove themselves from a file shared with them

    The list of "files shared with me" contains files other people shared with you and can be quite extensive. Sometimes these include files people are no longer interested in or feel they shouldn't have access to (GDPR). At the moment, only the origi...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    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...
    7 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Under Consideration

    Fix Wikis to enable Prism.js Syntax Highlighting by TinyMCE codesample plugin

    TinyMCE has a great plugin to insert source code snippets in the editor: https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/codesample/#codesample_languages With the plugin itself, this just work inside the editor. If the snippet is saved, there is no Syntax...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

    The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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