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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    @mentions should only appear in update view if there is an additional text comment

    People often use @mentions feature just to make colleagues aware of a certain content without adding additional comment. These updates then should not appear in the updates view also because it is no relevant update without any further text commen...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Push Notifications which pushes Notifications to User Browsers can be available to Profiles and Files only entitlement.

    Customer only has Profiles and Files entitlement of HCL Connections. Currently, customer with this entitlement can not use push notification which pushes Notifications to user browsers. But customer think this function is important and would like ...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    report on all communities surveys and the # of Surveys created.

    We need the # of Surveys created in Connections for our Cloud Org for the past year or a given period of time.We would like to have a user friendly report of the number of surveys which we created on all communities in the connections cloud. The a...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Fix wrong behavior of hide sidebar/close buttons in files on IE

    We noticed a issue with version 11.0.126. In the top right corner, there is a button with an right arrow to close the sidebar on the right. Next to the button is a close button. When clicking on the button with arrow, the file got closed instead o...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    FIDO2 and WebAuthn

    No need for passwords. A 2FA should be possible as well. WebAuthn is the new web standard and truly safe. Just login with a key (and biometric as 2FA).
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Improve wording of Connections "delete pop-up" message

    When using Connections there is no space between words on 'delete pop-up', it would be great if can incorporate following 1. add space at 2 places on “Delete app” pop-up. PSA2. “Warning” and “permanently” in bold"
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    In Community Activities remove the option to make other users readers when the community is public anyway

    When a file is shared with a folder this is shown on the Sharing tab of Connections in the browser below the other sharing details. If you however look at the sharing details by right mouse clicking on a file in the desktop connector and selecting...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make Connections a platform

    Please reconsider the way how partners and customers can extend Connections with new apps or widgets. The current ways are to complicated and require large skills in development. There should be out of box integration with automation tools such as...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Hope a setting to inform user if the download zip file exceeds 2G

    In Connections Files, select some files and download, then it will zip and download. If the zip file exceeds 2G (by default), then at last the download will fail and server reports "out of memory" issue, then server crash. Customer hope: there i...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Connections 6.0 files upload restriction based on user's IP address?

    We have IBM Connections 6.0 with latest CR3 on windows OS. We have not published to internet users yet. As of now we used Connections for only internal users for files and profiles features in Connections. We are having requirement that we need to...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement
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