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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    Disable version summary pop-up when publishing docs from native applications

    When publishing documents from native applications using the HCL Connections plug-in, you must complete a version summary pop-up before finalizing publication. The workflow is as follows: Open a Microsoft Word document through the HCL Connection...
    5 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

    Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Connections Community Name Update Discrepancy

    When you update the community name through the Connections page, the changes do not automatically reflect in the Connections desktop plugin. This discrepancy can lead to confusion among users, as they may see different community names on different...
    about 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

    Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

    IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows on Terminal Server 2012 / Citrix

    Copied from the old ER blog Customer requests the support for the desktop plugin on terminal server 2012 and with Citrix.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 7 No Plans to Implement

    Improve information on "no access page"

    when I 'm on a wiki/page and a link is embedded that links to a different wiki where I don't have access, the "no access" page is rather useless: you don't have access ask the person who provided the link.... I don't know who created the first lin...
    5 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Add possibility edit status updates

    Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

    It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

    In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
    almost 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration
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