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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    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...
    almost 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,...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

    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

    Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

    In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
    over 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    ICXT - PDF Export - Expose Static UI Labels in template.properties for Localization

    1. Problem Statement / Current Behavior Currently, the ICXT component for HCL Connections provides a default English template for exporting Wikis and Blogs to PDF. To localize these PDF outputs (e.g., changing labels to German, French, etc.), Admi...
    7 months ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    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...
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Preview Files for Anonymous User

    If an organization has anonymous user (e.g. workers not having/using a computer and therefore not having an account/email) which occasionally need to check the news in Connections, they are unable to see (preview) the content of public files. Plea...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 No Plans to Implement

    Hope comments inside WORD document can be supported by Docs Viewer

    Tested on 2.0 CR3 ifix009.After uploading a word file to Files, got below error when viewing it:The file cannot be imported into Viewer. There is something in this file that Viewer does not support at this time. This file cannot be imported. Openi...
    almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Future Consideration
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