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 Notifications_V1

    Customer wants to know if there are plans to stop support of the "old" notifications or will both notifications be supported? In "app_server_root/profiles/dm_profile_root/config/cells/cell-name/LotusConnections-config/ " directory there are 2 fold...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

    personalized serial email

    over hcl notes by using a excel or csv file with httl ode rtf output
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support MS SQL for surveys

    As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

    What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    ODBC access to community stored files

    currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    use email to upload files in a community

    It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

    It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Editor "Mode"

    Some users would like to have a dedicated Editor mode. On Wikis, Blogs, ICEC Pages, basically all Connections Applications and Pages where they have editor access, the buttons like "Edit" should be hidden. Only when the users activate die "Edit" f...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    provide updates and support for new versions of Activities Plus in the component package as soon as they are available

    The release of Activities Plus in the Component pack is from March 2020. ISW has already released updates compared to CP CR1. There are many improvements and fixes here that we would like to use Please provide updates and support for new versions ...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase

    When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the Desktop Plugin: AAA.xlsx Abb.xlsx Acc.xlsx ADD.xlsx Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the W...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration
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