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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    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

    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

    Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

    All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

    Need the ability to download all files in a folder at once in Connections Cloud

    Customer is using Connections cloud. Currently he can download all files in a community via the function of "Download all files" (Under view of "Files"-"All Community Files"). Customer requested the same function of "download all files" for an fol...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Needs Clarification

    Increase number of custom profile fields limit (IBM Connections Cloud)

    We are using custom fields on profiles (IBM Help: Customizing your organization > Updating user profiles). Currently we use 8 of them and there is a limit of 10 custom fields.Can this limit be extended? On-prem you do not have a limitation and ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    allow unlimited file growth in communities

    The 50Gig limit kills me. We receive 120Gig in regular projects as the handover from the customer - and start producing then up to Terabytes. (I do not ask to get that for free...) We would prefer to go BYOS on our own S3 storage accounts on Azur...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Remove self-updates from Updates stream

    I would like to have the possibility in my Updates my own Status Updates or Blog updates removed from the feed.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    access all files by a "normal" UNC path / SMB share

    we would like to access files like normal files on a harddisk or network share. 2 main reasons: - use links between files (e.g. in excel formula) - automatically upload and update (new version) files by copy or by a file generation tool
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Able to search Guest user within directory.

    There is a function within Connections Cloud / SmartCloud that allows external contacts to be added so that customer can use the collaboration tools. These are Guest / House accounts. When searching our directories, we are unable to find these acc...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to add widgets to Orient Me

    We want to have the possibility to add widgets to Orient Me like we could on the old homepage on the right side (Recommendations, To Dos, Events) in order to show e.g. trending topics (separate self-developed report that shows what's currently tre...
    almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement
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