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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    File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID

    File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID Ex. When we are sharing the file to somebody it would look like below. https://example.com/files/app/s/80XNQL7DrAS0N93MKLmYhnZp40bp or https://example.com/files/app/file/e5eb4e02-4dc9-4c6d-945b-d...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Alert admin when adding a subscription that goes into overage

    Most subscription types allow allow clients to add more users that they paid for, which is then billed as overage. However, the service doens't alert the admin that they are doing this, and then conflicts arise when the invoice arrives. A simple p...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Request for PROF_SOURCE_URL DB field to be increased from 256 chars

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: The PROF_SOURCE_URL column in the EMPLOYEE table of the PEOPLEDB is VARCHAR(256) characters.However, some customers have complex LDAP search filters. This means that when they perform a TDI synch using this filter, it fails ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types (MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Pictures etc.) to avoid downloading every file before it can be viewed/read.
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Already Exists

    Automated file compression

    Especially for media files - all uploads should automatically be optimized to minimize memory impact.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Linux client support to mount IBM Connections cloud storage

    It should be possible to mount the cloud files as a mount point on Linux desktops, allowing to seamlessly open and save cloud files from any Linux desktop.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Customize the colors of the website

    The app does not adapt to the colors of the website Connections. If the customer does not have blue as a color but green, the app will still be blue. I'd like it better if the app adapts to the design of the website.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Already Exists

    Certain types of API generated activity stream events are rendered ugly when they appear in the daily digest

    Problem ScenarioWhen API generated @mention events show up in the notification email, the format is ugly. TroubleshootingCustomer is following steps from API documentation here:https://ibm.biz/BdYCnq In the daily digest mail, the API generated eve...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Video in a powerpoint cannot be read with the preview

    A video is inserted in a powerpoint. At the preview, we don't even know there is a video : the slide is empty. Seen in Connections on prem.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Mail Merge

    Could a mail merge agent be incorporated?
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement
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