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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    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration

    Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

    It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Thumbnails for files in Desktop plugin

    In the desktop plugin.. the plugin should display the thumbnails of images as the Windows explorer does. When browsing through files using MS Windows Explorer, previews are shown in the form of thumbnails for many content types. This includes almo...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Include the IBM developed System Applications from Portal legacy in every port to HCL DX containerized.

    There are about a dozen IBM created system applications included in WebSphere Application Server (ND) that could be inadvertently dropped if and when WAS is replaced by a non-royalty JVM like Liberty. Our company relies on one or two of these apps...
    3 months ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    METRICS BY USER

    As a LOB user, I want to have metrics by user. For example: I want to understand all access by a single user ((logins, pages, communities, downloads, likes etc)) or I want to understand all user access of my all user in connections (logins, pages,...
    almost 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

    Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

    The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Allow community files to be shared across multiple community folders

    There is a documented limitation that indicates "you can put a community owned file in only one community folder." This is inconsistent with personal files which allow files to be shared with multiple folders. Allowing a community file to be share...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Make notes plugin also support "mobile number" for connections Business Card integration. Now it only does "OfficeNumber".

    Make notes plugin also support mobile number for connections BC intergration. Now it only does OfficeNumber.
    about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Windows Explorer Desktop PlugIn functions (not sync) for Mac

    For Windows the Explorer PlugIn is available. It allows to view the contents of the file repository and to download and upload files. An upload creates a new version and asks for a description of the changes . In Windows as well the synchronizatio...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 6 Under Consideration

    Support Full "SAML 2.0 single logout" in WAS/Connections.

    Full "SAML 2.0 single logout" in WAS/Connections. The functionality should cooperate with Microsoft ADFS and should be tested with Microsoft ADFS. Currently there is no support for this feature as per: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Future Consideration
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