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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    Find inactive (= unused) communities

    As an admin of the system there should be also the option not only do filter and find communities (via CAT tool or wsadmin commands) which are inactive in case of the last timestamp of the updated/edited date property (e.g. community has been upda...
    about 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    HCL Connections to support reading photos from external source like HCL Verse and load into profiles database

    If a customer has one Domino LDAP for several single tenant Connections environment and users upload their photos through HCL Verse and integration with Connections is not configured, HCL Connections should support reading photos from external sou...
    about 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Mobile App can't add apps to Community

    Mobile App users can create communities, but they can't add applications, so it is not possible to add e.g., Wikis to this created community. Please add the option to add applications to communities (for owners).
    about 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Let Files Widgets Open Links In Same Tab

    Files and Files Explorer widgets currently have links with target="_blank". As a result, if the user clicks on a filename, the browser opens a new tab, redirectes the user to the community holding the file and then opens the Docs Viewer. That take...
    about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Already Exists

    Allow "Track Changes" also for Powerpoint files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on powerpoint files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Powerpoint files.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Admin feature to collect and search all access log - especially when and who accessed what Connections contents.

    I think that all access log is written in Metics DB.Please provide a SQL tool to export access log from Metrics DB by specifying the start date and end date as parameters.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Add breadcrumb when opening a file in a library (ccm) via a link

    when i walk down the folder path in a library, there is a breadcrumb showing me where the file is located > ccmbc1.jpg. When i go to the file via a link then the breadrumb is missing >ccmbc2
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Doubled magnifying glasses in Connections Android App

    Doubled magnifying glasses are displayed when a PDF file is viewed. This is very annoying.Ideally it should show only the PDF zoom magnifying glass symbol and hide the standard zoom option.
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Provide overview of files being followed

    As long as downloaded files are being followed by default, which you might like/want or not, my notification overview is floaded with updates to files that I don't care about. Of course i can go to the file and unfollow, but wouldn't it be far mor...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Maintenance Kudos Boards notification in one place in Connections

    Now a user has the option to manage email and browser notifications in Connections. For Kudos Boards however is a separated admin console where one can enable or disable email notifications. Make notifications more efficient and possible on one ce...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement
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