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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    Offer @ mentions function in all applications

    When trying to mention another user in ex. Rich Content app on the community page this is not possible. Users would like to have this option in all aplications since it will help with consistency.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    As an admin I want to see a list of all Communities in my Org (even restricted ones)

    Create API to enable creation of a list of all Communities, even private ones (without having to purchase a 3rd party tool).
    about 8 years ago in 09. Administration 5 Already Exists

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

    supply more detailed fix lists for Desktop and Notes plugin

    There are new plugins available for Notes and MS Desktop but unfortunately the Release Notes do not specify which fixes are contained. Can you please provide more details to allow a better decision if an upgrade is required. Desktop Plugin https:/...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Content Moderation for Files Improvement

    In connection with IDEACNCTNS-I-761, we see that you are working for future consideration of showing metadata and further information for the Files in Moderations Queue but it would be best to also add 3 more improvements 1. Even there's a ...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Adding a way to set the users to "read-only" role to everything inside Connections

    A way to set users to "reader-only" role to Connections including Mobile and Plugins to avoid changes when there is a need to copy some data or perform backup will be useful. There is a way to set roles per application but it is good to have an "o...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Support for http/2 in IBM Connections

    Since Ibm application server 8.5+ supports http/2 and Http/2 brings many new improvements over http it would be a great feature if Connections would add support for http/2 in Connections. https://developer.ibm.com/articles/wa-http2-under-the-hood/
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Make Properties for "Export to PDF" configurable

    Do you make it configurable, on PDF Export, to only tick the page that was open when the PDF button was clicked? Usually we only want to print the current page. Do you make it possible to have a different default for the automatically set propert...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Thumbnail generation variables

    As an admin, I want the ability to check, configure, and reset the last rendition of the media file that the thumbnail generation task has processed. In the Connections code, the lastThumbnailEventFile variable stores the desired data. However, cu...
    over 4 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Lock Activity Entry if someone is editing

    Currently if 2 or more users start editing an activity entry during the same time, the last one who saves wins. This leads to the fact that new content or modifications of the other users who have saved in the meanwhile will be lost. Also there ar...
    almost 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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