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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    Remove self-updates from Updates stream

    I would like to have the possibility in my Updates my own Status Updates or Blog updates removed from the feed.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    access all files by a "normal" UNC path / SMB share

    we would like to access files like normal files on a harddisk or network share. 2 main reasons: - use links between files (e.g. in excel formula) - automatically upload and update (new version) files by copy or by a file generation tool
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Add Support of Domino LDAP V10/11 for Connections 6.0/6.5

    Only Domino 9.0.1 is supported by Connections 6.0/6.5, but Domino 9.0.1 will not last long. Adding Domino 10/11 as Supported LDAP in Connections 6.0/6.5 Systems Requirements.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Working with multible Connections instances

    When working with multible Connections instances, for example one is in the cloud, one is hosted by us and one is hosted by a partner company, it is hard for users to differentiate bewtween these 3 instance. Give the users a interface where infor...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Add support Java 8 for TDISOL.

    TDISOL does not work with Java 8. Since Connections 6.0 supports Java 8, TDISOL should support it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

    Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

    Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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