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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    Allow to share community files from/to Verse

    Why Verse supports only personal files? This is a real pain point which blocks adoption.
    about 8 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Under Consideration

    Make Desktop plugin to appear as a drive/location in Windows

    Please change the way desktop plugin is presented in Windows - make it available in all open/save dialogues so we can work with Connections files from any application. It should appear the same way as Dropbox, Box.com etc. For example, I need fre...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    Multi-Layer SubCommunities

    As of now there is no way yet to create a subcommunity for a subcommunity. You can only create a subcommunity [Child] for a Community [Parent]. https://help.hcl-software.com/connections/latest/user/communities/c_com_create_subcommunity.html Havin...
    4 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Ability to apply default/template view to Desktop Plugin folder views in Windows

    Requesting the ability to apply folder template view to the way the Desktop Plugin displays folder contents in Windows.
    over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

    Watson workspace integration

    allow some out-of-box integration between Connections (both on prem and cloud) with WW. All people shall be decorated with online presence indicators and there shall be a “WW space” widget for Communities which would link a single space with a giv...
    about 8 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 4 No Plans to Implement

    Different Landing page after login for external Users

    The core idea is to personalize the post-login experience for external users. By identifying a user's role (customer, vendor, etc.) and immediately redirecting them to a dedicated, role-specific landing page, systems enhance efficiency and securit...
    9 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    adding exclusions for ldap groups in appregistry

    When writing a app in appreg it is possible to add exclusions for users. For these users the app is not applied. Currently the users have to be listed one by one in the app. It would be good to add exclusion for a ldap group if users for exclusion...
    about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Complete the PINK journey and communicate it better

    Last year you said that PINK is a journey. It began with Customizer, but since Jason Gary left IBM I have heard very little detail on what is to come. Maybe you should look at the way Domino #2025 handle its communication. Personally I would like ...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to share externally from files

    We would like the ability to share files added on Connections Cloud with external people and partners from their company. We deal a lot with external partners and it is a hassle to have to save the file locally from Connections Cloud and then atta...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 12 Needs Clarification

    Pinning of community files and files shared with a community not possible

    2 Scenarios to upload a file: A user can upload a file into "My Files": * pinning is possible in the Files app (via "My Files", "Public Files", etc.). A user can share this file (uploaded into the "My Files") with a community ("Shared from Files")...
    almost 8 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration
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