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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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Share by link also for anonymous users

A new feature share-by-link introduced in 6.0 CR4 still requires users (who receive the link) to log in in Connections to be able to access the shared file. However, users expect that the links should work for everybody, i.e. for all anonymous use...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Convert community file to personal file

Currently it is possible to convert a personal file to a community file, but not yet the other way around
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

[ConnX MT] Need to have the ability to customize Metrics UI

Currently, Metrics UI can't be customized as its in written in hardcode. For example, if Connections deployed with features (such as Activities) disabled. It doesn't make sense if Metrics UI still display any column of Activities. Thus, it is need...
over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

Additional Add a Topic Button

​I publish a lot of topics in a row. Is there a way to insert a "Add a Topic"-button in the topic view? Until now I have to jump back to the Forum-view and have to click the button there.
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Future Consideration

MS Teams Awareness Icon

Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
over 1 year ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

Provide all users in Connections MT access to an HCEC portal for change management

Requesting the functionality to have an HCL Connections Engagement Center (HCEC) landing page accessible to all organizations within an MT environment). This HCEC portal for change management should be accessible anonymously and/or in a "read only".
over 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Needs Clarification

Full type-ahead functionality for search Community that contains the accented characters

When searching for a Community via the catalog search, inputting any special character returns zero results. Currently a known product limitation but highly requested by customers as many languages incorporating special characters. Was provide...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
10 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Improve logging options for communitymembership social analytics indexing

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. The task only logs w...
about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement