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 users to unfollow content using OrientMe Home Page

    The "classic" activity stream features the option "Stop Following" in order to unfollow content (IBM Help : Stop following) and receiving updates about an item or person. Unfortunately, this can not be performed in OrientMe and I have to switch to...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple helm charts use hardcoded ports for the service definition

    When deploying multiple instances of the connections component pack on the same Kubernetes cluster in different namespaces, you find that several ports are hardcoded inside the helm charts. The provided helm charts must be modified by hand to chan...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Change Invite process and possibilities into a more manageable service.

    In order to get a better understanding about your invited external users, there is a need for change in that process. Optional choice of security: Disallow all users to invite externals, except for those with the rights to do so. ( Like with Commu...
    about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Future Consideration

    New employees should automatically follow administrator-defined communitys

    New employees should automatically follow multiple communities. These communities are to be defined by the administrator.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Already Exists

    Support for Desktop Plugin under Windows Terminalservices /Citrix

    This useful feature needs support for the Windows Terminalservice/Citrix Envirnoment. The Windows/Citrix environment is the strategy of the IT vendor of saving banks in germany. Without this feature the files application is not practicably usable....
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 No Plans to Implement

    Embedded Experience is missing in Orient Me

    The classic homepage offered a very elegant way to get work done: the embedded experience allowed people to stay in the stream and work on event transactions in a popup that opened when clicking the event tile. In Orient Me this functionality was ...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Already Exists

    Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

    The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Allow direct download of desktop plug-in (not via Flexnet)

    Nowadays users can download desktop plug-ins only via HCL Flexnet - which nobody manages to do so. Even many adminisrators have troubles to download files from Flexnet and update download links in Connections (My Drive page) regularly. Therefore u...
    almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Bookmarks - Add like and comment

    Please add likes and comments to bookmarks like to any other regular contents.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    Customer to have links open in new tabs

    The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review
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