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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    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

    Support for Watermarks on Connections

    Customer wants to have Watermark support on multiple areas of Connections (blogs, wikis, ...) on pages and when printing.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    Allow users to permanently remove activities and activity-tasks from the trash - Empty trash option on Activities

    Users are able to delete Tasks, Entries and Section as well as complete Activities but once in the trash they can only restore. They can't permanently remove an item or Activity and have to wait for the regular clean up cycle for the items to be r...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections portal - Monitor the menus and notify when the links become inaccessible

    Would like to get notification even before user experiences issues with any of the connections link. Already all the servers which host the connections service are set to monitor the service, but wanted to know if there is a way to identify when t...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improvements on backend SQL queries

    Requesting improvements on backend SQL queries. Observations indicate that: A number of the SQL queries are doing hard parsing Most of them have common text Due to the use of literals (instead of bind variables), we see multiple SQL IDs and diffe...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    extend FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles functionality

    The FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles currently does not have the ability to gracefully handle situations where references to a file/files exist within the Files database but do not exist on the filesystem. The command's current behavior is it ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Minimize Attachment List in Activity Entries

    If you are pasting screenshots to an activity entry it attaches the screen capture as attachment to the specific entry. All those attachments are displayed with the unique generated URL at the beginning of the entry. Sometimes this list gets prett...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Chat - Ability to send chat message when recipient is offline

    fishNET Open Items - Smartsheet.com When opening a new chat with another user the other user must be online in order for the chat message to be sent. Currently this is only available for on-prem customers.
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement
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