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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    "Open menu in Microsoft Word application to include ""IBM Connections"" option"

    When opening Word, Excel, Powerpoint, you have to ability to Save as to IBM Connections ( see attachment). But you don't have IBM Connections available when Opening a file in Word, Excel, Etc. Is there a reason why it isn't available in this secti...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Windows Desktop plugin file search option

    When using the desktop plugin integration from Windows File explorer and try to search for a file in Connections files you can only use this form of search sentence : PartOfFilename* and not *artOfFilename* to find files. When you use the search i...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Better Photo Viewer in Connections App!!!

    The current photo viewer in the app is not good. You have to click each photo individually. This is awkward and about 100 photos in a folder is not up to date! You can still install a photo viewer in the app automatically when slid to the right or...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    How does Connections decide if the Redis traffic should be sent directly or through the tunnel?

    Right now Connections has no implementations, but there is an ongoing development to Provide a configuration option that will allow customers to run all component pack traffic through TLS Implement TLS Enforcement for Component Pack Integratio...
    8 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Enhancement Request - Custom widget with similar functionality to TopNews widget

    In ICEC, the TopNews widget uses images and text from a blog post. i.e. similar to a top news story in a newspaper: Image + Headline + Text. When there is an image in a blog that is used by the TopNews widget this works fine. However, if the blog ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration

    Enable Guest Users in Connections Cloud and ICEC SaaS

    Many prospecto clients request the possibility to have a public Information regarding communities and announcements without a registered user, and manage Information as common Community with registered users for other kind of Information. Right no...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 No Plans to Implement

    Reply Function in Blog and Wiki Comments (HCL Connections App)

    It is currently not possible to reply to a colleague's blog or Wiki comments. I have to @Mention the person I want to reply with so that he receives a notification.
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 No Plans to Implement

    The ITM bar should remember the status, whether open or closed

    We have users who like to use the ITM Bar in V8 and some who don't. Those who don't like to use it hide it using the two arrows at the bottom in the browser. However, this setting is not retained. As soon as you refresh the browser page, the ITM B...
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Comeback for Connections Editor (mobile) app

    The Connections Editor mobile app went EOS & EOL a while back: https://hclpnpsupport.hcltech.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0022237&sys_kb_id=aab7bab71bd9fb4077761fc58d4bcb2d Still it is very useful for many users working mobi...
    almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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