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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    Let every app run on a rasperry pi, as promised

    2017 Jason Roy Gary announced "The future is pink": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-Connections-6-Die-Zukunft-ist-Pink-3672015.html Where he promised that every component should run on a raspberry pi. Since java is avaliable for ARM, t...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Improve the Files Logging so we can act quicker when a virus infected file brings the server down by making it easier to find the user who uploaded the infected file

    Improve the Files Logging so we can act quicker when a virus infected file brings the server down, by making it easier to find the user who uploaded the infected file
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Docs: Page number only displays when the page is scrolled

    Clicking the cursor onto a Docs page doesn't cause the page number to be displayed. To find out what page you are on, you must scroll the page enough to move it.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Enable "DocuSign" in Connections

    No description provided
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Allow remove and re-assign ALL users content to someone else by one click

    The scenario of interest is how to reassign user content after they have left the company/organization. This means how can we change the content ownership such as files, communities, wikis, blogs, forums, etc. by one click. Allow to re-assign info...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Connections to support .wmv extension on Files Preview

    Customer would like to have ability the Preview files with extension .wmv on Files application. As per the note in the documentation below "The supported file formats are listed in this file and appear to be editable; however any changes to the fo...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    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
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