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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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Restrict access to members of a community for a pre-defined time

We use communities in which we share confidential data with user outside our own domain. In most cases we want to restricted the access to this data by our guest for a limited time.We like to have an enhancement in the system so that we can define...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

An option to allow all communities to be filtered by guest users

In a Community Members tab there is an option to "Filter by: People from an outside organisation" to display guests from outside a community. This can only be used one community at a time to check guest users for a community. This enhancement re...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Remember sorting of Community Files

As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Link Files from other communities

Currently, it is only possible to link to a file in a Wiki page from the community where the Wiki belongs to. But sometimes it would be very useful if you can link to files from other communities.Please implement the ability to select files from ...
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Request for Support from Oracle 18c for Connections

Customer requests support of Oracle 18c with Connections 5.5 and 6.0 as we plan to migrated from Oracle 12c to Oracle 18c.
about 5 years ago in 13. Other 3 No Plans to Implement

Enable OAuth for Connections Desktop Plugin (onPrem)

(we should have a category "Desktop Plugin" for ideas) The Connections Desktop Plugin authenticates "separately" with the connections server. OAuth is already supported by Connections mobile both in on-prem and cloud scenarios. This is simila...
about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Automatic tagging based on templates

Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Consistent Emoticon support

I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration