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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    Two factor authentication

    Add additional security layer on login to add 2Factor apps like Google authenticator.
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Finding Files view double scroll bar

    We would like to have the second scrollbar from the files view removed as is causes confusion on the users part
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    allow external guests to work in communities much better than today

    let me mention guests let them follow communities they are a member of to get a single, combined multi-project activity stream on their personal homepage and digest mail services also - including alerts on mention etc. let them use the desktop con...
    about 8 years ago in  4 Under Consideration

    Services Status Page for Monitoring

    This idea suggests to introduce a HTTP status page for all Connections services. This status page will enhance and simplify service monitoring and load balancing on the infrastructure level. If Connections is configured for Federated Authenticatio...
    over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Enhancement request: Improvement of search quality - Expression variations of Katakana characters of Japanese language

    This is enhancement request from Yachiyo Industry who is using Connections Social Cloud and ICEC on Cloud. Kata-kana characters of Japanese language has some expression variations. For example, a word "A project manager" has 8 expression variatio...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Community Highlights Folders widget sorting

    Hello HCL Connections Offering Management, Regarding the use of Folder Widgets in version 7.0 and 8.0 in Community>Highlights (XCC), we have found it to be a great alternative to the Files Widget. However, we have identified a need for enhan...
    about 3 years ago in  0 Needs Review

    Orient ME Component Pack - ITM bar old entries cannot be deleted

    Hello Dev Team and Offering Management, We would like to ask for a potential enhancement if this can be done sooner. Whenever there are old entry/entries in the ITM bar, let us say that person or employee was deleted or inactivated. The entry for ...
    almost 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Needs Review

    Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

    Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

    Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

    Please add sharing files to Groups feature

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or a community. If user wanted to share a file to a group of people, he had to add person one by one on sharing page which is inconvenient. Please help add sharing a file to a grop...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review
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