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 for IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows browsing via [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from Microsoft Office applications.

    The current IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows does not allow for browsing when choosing [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from MS Office applications. The current functionality does not allow for the same browsing from [Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Ability for external users to follow communities

    External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

    Spreadsheet to automatically filter all data including empty spaces in between data

    When you automatically filter data in a column, it would only filter all the data until the first blank space of the column. This behavior is different from openoffice where it can filter all data even if there are blank spaces in between. (WPS Sp...
    9 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin

    The customer is using the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin, and they are using communities very dynamically (per customer). Customer would like to automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin and refresh that...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Re-design of Guest Users/Visitor User Model for IBM Connections Cloud Version (SaaS)

    Back in 2016 there was a roadmap for a re-design of the whole guest users approach to improve the management of external users in your own cloud tenant that could fulfill requirements such as: - More control for cloud tenant admins - Overview of e...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

    supply more detailed fix lists for Desktop and Notes plugin

    There are new plugins available for Notes and MS Desktop but unfortunately the Release Notes do not specify which fixes are contained. Can you please provide more details to allow a better decision if an upgrade is required. Desktop Plugin https:/...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Thumbnail generation variables

    As an admin, I want the ability to check, configure, and reset the last rendition of the media file that the thumbnail generation task has processed. In the Connections code, the lastThumbnailEventFile variable stores the desired data. However, cu...
    about 4 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    As an admin I want to see a list of all Communities in my Org (even restricted ones)

    Create API to enable creation of a list of all Communities, even private ones (without having to purchase a 3rd party tool).
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 5 Already Exists

    Multi file delete should be possible for files using the web frontend

    Currently files have to be deleted one by one from the files widget of a community. Offering delete functionality for multi select files analogous to multi select download using the web frontend of Connections would be helpful to organize files an...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration
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