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

    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

    Windows desktop plugin annoys with popup for login on start although nothing to do for the user

    The windows desktop plugin login process for web authentication needs absolutely NO popup once the user has made use of his federated SAML login via ADFS. The popup annoys every time you start the service, saying you are being logged on, nothing t...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

    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

    Allow Desktop plugin to sync certain user-defined folders and its subfolders with My Files

    in S1 you have 1Tb space available but can't use it to backup you local work folder to the cloud. its way more convinient to have the whole local folder and its subfolders synced with My Files. and be able to change files localy so that they chang...
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Already Exists

    Activity Reminder in Connections Plugin

    We're currently using the Activities Application in Connections to follow our actions. We'd love to be able to get an alarm or a notification in Lotus (Plugin), to remember us of an activity that need to be completed soon (let's say a week before ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 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

    External email address can't be added while sharing file from IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    In IBM Connections Desktop plugin, when we are sharing file externally and trying to add external email address then there is only option to search that email address in directory. However since this is an external email address, it can't be searc...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration
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