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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    Provide better Error Messages for Infected Files when using Windows Plugins

    When using ICAP for virus scanning and uploading an infected file via the Windows Plugins for Connections, the file gets scanned and blocked correctly. However, the users just get the response that they are not allowed to upload the file. This is ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Option to create a list of Files/Folders

    Currently it's not possible to create a list of files/folders from the apps Files/Folders or Libraries in Community's similar to for instance the old fashioned DIR-command you can use to list files/folders for a local hard drive or networkdrive.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Completely remove all of the old stack from Connections by version 7.0

    As a business partner, we find it hard to sell the current version of Connections because customer need to provide 2 kind of hardware (one for WAS and another for the Component Pack). In fact we have one customer who repeatedly delay their planned...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Calendar Picker for event shall start week on Monday

    I have setup an event on a Sunday because the week starts on Sunday in the calendar picker. At least an option to change this would be great.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

    In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Create events with limited members

    it would be greate to create events with limited members. After the limit is reached, users can't no more attend to the event.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Combine Recent Updates and Status Updates into one menu item in communites

    These 2 take up valuable landscape in the menu bar and are used way too infrequently. Combine into one view and give users the option to filter, as necessary. Accelerate value of updates and finding the latest changes within communities! See also ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

    For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner fo...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Display files without folder association in Community folder view as files in root folder

    Currently it is hardly possible to distinguish between files that are placed in a specific folder and files that are only visible in the Files view of the Community library (files that have been uploaded directly to the Files section), since all C...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Windows desktop plugin annoys with popup for login on start although nothing to do for the user

    The windows desktop plugin login process for web authentication needs absolutely NO popup once the user has made use of his federated SAML login via ADFS. The popup annoys every time you start the service, saying you are being logged on, nothing t...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration
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