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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    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

    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

    Connections 5.5. Notes Plugin Status updates

    In the section "status updates" you can search for a Community/Person to follow. After a restart of the Notes client the selection is empty and has to be selected again. The selection should be kept and saved on memory.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop Plugin - method for saving the settings (eg communities added)

    Preserving user's community list in IBM connections Desktop PluginWe would like to have a method for saving the settings (eg communities added) from one system and applying them to another. Users who are members in many different communities, wou...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Flies Plugin - Highlight External Content (Communities, People, Files)

    Please improve the Files Plugin to clearly highlight external content, such as external communities, external files, external users. The current user experience is not consistent with the webbrowser and there is a risk that a file explorer user sh...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Define a permission or a read role over the directory that contains community files

    Customer need to know if it is feasible to restrict permissions on files that are stored in a community. They have many communities created in IBM Connections, but they only see two types of profiles (owners and members).Members sometimes delete w...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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