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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Search results: 01. General/Multiple Areas

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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...
6 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

Collapsible sections should maintain selection after changing display

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Extend Administrator access roles to trash content

Currently, only the community owner/business owner is able to view the deleted community from their trash. Administrators are unable to view a deleted community and thus cannot restore the community themselves from the trash unless they too are ow...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

new "Configure Connection Retention in the Trash Folder", like e-mail retention

Currently In Connections Cloud, if a user deletes all the content to which they have access (an entire community, community or personal files, wikis, etc.), and then removes the trash, perhaps by mistake, perhaps because he was fired, or by any ot...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Option to have guest logon with a 2FA or any other option to force dual authentication

At this moment guest are invited by a link to there email-address. However we can't be sure that we haven't made a typo or know if others then our guest have access to the emailbox. We like to have an option that the guest can only access the comm...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Provide option to request access to restricted content

Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side

Implement URL Preview and RSS Feeds on the client side. Currently RSS Feed and URL Preview generation is done on the server side. Which mean that from the backend server there are requests done to various external sources in the Internet. From sec...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Assessment
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