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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    Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

    Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Duplicate Horizontal Scrollbars in Wiki when ITM is Active and Browser Resized

    We are seeing a 'double scrollbar' conflict in the Wiki component. When the browser width is reduced, the iframe and the main container each generate their own horizontal scrollbar. This is triggered when the ITM bar is visible. We need a way to f...
    9 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    HCL Connections Desktop Plugin for DocsCorp

    The plugin gives you the option to save files from Word, Excel, Power Point directly in Connections. It would be super cool if DocsCorp also had the opportunity. Select files from communities, edit them in Docs Corp and save them back to the commu...
    almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

    support for HCL Connections Mail Plug-in to work with Microsoft 365 Mail

    We would like to use the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in with O365. Unfortunately this is not supported at this time. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/connectionsmail/v6.5/Deploying/icm_admin.html Please enhance Connections Mail Plug-in support...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Chrome extension

    There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open to...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

    RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

    Remove limit of 2000 Elements for a single Activity

    Activities stop to work as soon as they store 2000 elements. Please remove this limitation.
    about 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Add the option to download the original file in media gallery

    A lot of our customers are asking for an option to be able to download the displayed file in the media gallery widget. At the moment there is only the option to save the displayed file (picture), but this is only resized and there are no option to...
    about 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Invite feature does not work with UTF-8 Names

    While using the invite feature, if you use some UTF-8 Characters it does not work. Please enhance this. We have customers which are not IT engineers, they do not care about encoding. For us, this is a complete show stopper. For example encode the ...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Disable link recognition in Activitystream and Mail notifications

    When you create a post (blog, forum, wiki) and add some project number or JIRA ticket number in the beginning, linked to your Helpdesk, or other system, this link gets removed in the mail notification and activity stream. When your JIRA number now...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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