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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    support for HCL Connections Mail Plug-in to work with Microsoft 365 Mail

    We would like to use the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in with O365. Unfortunately this is not supported at this time. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/connectionsmail/v6.5/Deploying/icm_admin.html Please enhance Connections Mail Plug-in support...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Disable compression for Thumbnails in mediagalery

    Pictures uploaded and used as a thumbnails in media gallery looks to be in lower quality. As software do this as an optimization process, is there a way to disable the compression for Thumbnails in media gallery
    8 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

    RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

    Support for Chrome extension

    There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open to...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    To mark multiple files in the HCL Connections Mobile App to share in communities

    To share multiple files to a community in HCL Connections Moile Application is not availble. We can share only one file at a time. For example, if we try to share 4 files from "My files" with an existing community we have to share every single fil...
    over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Invite feature does not work with UTF-8 Names

    While using the invite feature, if you use some UTF-8 Characters it does not work. Please enhance this. We have customers which are not IT engineers, they do not care about encoding. For us, this is a complete show stopper. For example encode the ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    If no profile picture exists, then profile picture with abbreviation of first and last name.

    If people don't upload a picture there is only the one default profil icon - even not gender neutral. Would be nice to show the profile ficture with abbreviation of first and last name. This is common way - e.g. MS Teams, Outlook etc.
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    Integration of a real photo viewer and video streaming player! (HCL Connections App)

    We use Connections not only as a collaboration platform but also as an intranet platform with ICEC. Our users like Connections but there are two functions that are clearly missing in the HCL Connections app. :) First: A REAL Photoviewer. In order ...
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

    Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    How to Automatically update Community Name Folder locally when the name changes in Connections

    When changing the Community Name in Connections, the only way to change the name in the Connections Plugin is to do it manually. How to do this change automatically?
    8 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review
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