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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    Need Connections Desktop Plugin to support Windows on Hyper-V

    We found some features such as "My Drive" doesn't work on Win 10 on Hyper-V. After checking with Support. Hyper-V is not supported. We have client machine that is on Hyper-V. We need Hyper-V to be supported by Connections Desktop Plugin.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    enhance refresh for status update ibm connection plugin for notes

    Request a config settings to force a immediately refresh or a time setting (every 10-15 min) to trigger this refresh.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Refresh (F5) menu icon/item for Status Updates in Connections Notes plugin

    In the Connections Notes plugin, Activities has a refresh icon and the menu for Files sidebar panel also contains a item 'Refresh F5'. But, it is not so present for the Status Updates Panel (only on right mouse click). Therefore we'd like to reque...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

    An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the us...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

    Change Embedded WebView behavior

    For some deployments it would be helpful if a link that i tap on opens in in either Safari or another App. For some links still embedded is preferred. Idea: Create a domain whitelist for handing over to Operating System Example Scenario: Today...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

    Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Dogear: Support retrieval of favicon through Proxy-Server w/o having set reader role to Everyone

    As of Connections 6.0 CR2 it is not possible to retrieve favicons in Dogear through a configured Proxy Server without having the need to set the Dogear reader role to Everyone. Doing so result ins Dogear being accessible for even anonymous users, ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support Responsive images

    ConNext does not seem to support responsive images with attributes max-width=95%; height:auto; See https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_responsive.asp It would be great to have this supported for not having to bother about image width.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    IBM Editor Hotkey to switch to HTML Source

    I would much appreciate if the IBM ConnectionsEditor were providing an Hotkey to switch to the HTML Source view like the textbox.io with Ctrl+Shift+U.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Clarification

    Improved search - search for content liked by me

    In the Advanced search I would like the possibility to filter the search results by content I have liked.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration
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