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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    Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

    A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

    It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Bitte die erste Ansicht nach klicken auf einen Beitrag die Schrift nicht blau sondern schwarz machen

    wegen den blauen Links - kannst du nicht mehr unterscheiden
    9 months ago in  0 Needs Review

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    almost 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Search in Blog and Wiki combining tags and keywords

    Currently it is not possible within a single wiki or blog to search with a combination of tags and keywords. (It is possible in Forums) You can just filter by tags but not do both Example search entries tagged with 'connext' containing the keyword...
    about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Comeback for Connections Editor (mobile) app

    The Connections Editor mobile app went EOS & EOL a while back: https://hclpnpsupport.hcltech.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022237&sys_kb_id=aab7bab71bd9fb4077761fc58d4bcb2d Still it is very useful for many users working mobi...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

    Fix menu bars when scrolling

    Dear Team, one problem in the community is, that the menu bar on top and on the left of the page are not fixed upon scrolling. So I simply loose the option to navigate once I have reached lower parts of a page. This is highly annoying since most m...
    almost 8 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Resize Images Thumbnails in Midea Gallery

    I´m creating wiht a cusomter a new startpage in HCEC and added to the page a media gallery widget. I tried to verify, checked and tested different thing to get the images bigger, but we couldn't get this done.
    over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Improve notifications /feed in ios App

    See screenshot attached done as of 2020-05-11: For all notifications in the mobile app (ios) The main notification part mentioned "xxx created ...." The key information for the notification in fact shall be the part below: yyy liked the post. This...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration
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