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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    Allow using filters if cell is protected

    Docs disables using filters if it is placed in a protected cell (spread sheet). Excel alllows filtering in such case. Therefore users can't filter online and filters can't changed (inactivated) online if a user upload a sheet with set filters. Ple...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Let sync local company contacts (LDAP) with Profiles

    Companies often have internal contact registers, eg in CRM in Domino / Notes. These contacts are regularly maintained with customers and suppliers. By synchronizing these with profiles in Connections, it will make it smarter to invite external mem...
    almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 No Plans to Implement

    The default value for PROF_IDHASH should better be 'e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb924'. Or allow null value for PROF_IDHASH.

    PROF_IDHASH becomes "?" when registering new users who does not have email address. For users who does not have email address, PROF_IDHASH should be a fixed value 'e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb924'. But if we register new user on LDAP and run sy...
    almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 No Plans to Implement

    Option to mark email from community/IBM Connections as "private"

    We like to have an option to mark (or have set) emails send from IBM Connections as private. We wish to restrict the content of this messages to the owner of the mailbox and to hide it from those who are mandated to view the content of these mailb...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    integration Box.com with HCL Connections/community

    AS User of IBM Connections Cloud, we Werenskiold able to integrate Box.com into communities. IBM had made a complete add-in, just to put in our Connections server on-prem.
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 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

    Profiles - provide a button in each tab to edit information

    In profiles there are various tabs called "The Board", "Contact Information", "Background", etc. It would be beneficial to have "Edit" button for different tabs. Therefore, you don't need to look for "Edit My Profile" button which is located under...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Cascading Search in Communities

    As of today, if you search in a community, only the main community's content is being searched. If the community has one or more sub-communities, search doesn't look into their content. My expectation is that search always cascades to sub-communit...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add Typeahead in related community widget

    At the moment its only possible to paste the link to a community and to provide a title. It would be more convenient if I could just start typeing the community title.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration
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