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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    Support Full "SAML 2.0 single logout" in WAS/Connections.

    Full "SAML 2.0 single logout" in WAS/Connections. The functionality should cooperate with Microsoft ADFS and should be tested with Microsoft ADFS. Currently there is no support for this feature as per: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Make notes plugin also support "mobile number" for connections Business Card integration. Now it only does "OfficeNumber".

    Make notes plugin also support mobile number for connections BC intergration. Now it only does OfficeNumber.
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Connections support for Windows Server 2025

    We have existing Connections customers here in Germany who are planning to migrate to release 8 now. They are running Connections on Windows. Due to their policy they need to use the current Windows Server release 2025 for all new applications. I ...
    11 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Abliity to change the external share status of a file after upload

    Currently, you can only decide if a file should be allowed to be shared externally during upload. If you change your mind, you should be able to change this in the UI as an owner of a file
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Don't show restricted communities where you are NOT a member in Community Overview

    It is possible that somebody creates a restricted community and checks the option to show community name to the organisation. If you where a member in the past for that community, but not anymore, you still see the community in "My Communities" ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Templates and forms for Wikis

    It would be great if we can get the function to implement a forms with fields (text, dropdown and so on) in wikis. We often have to fill in the same type of data a group of informations in wikis. So it would help a lot if we can implement a form w...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Embed a video file in a blog

    Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review

    On-prem support for Outlook Add-in using OIDC configured with Keycloak

    Requesting support for using the on-premises Outlook Add-in with Keycloak OIDC
    about 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Sametime V10 and Sametime V11 Support for Connections Integration

    Only Sametime version 9 is currently supported as a Chat client for HCL Connections. Why not version 10? Or version 11 in the future?
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists
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