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 the notification center to open of the 3rd party reusable navbar inside of connections

    Please allow ncflyout inside of foreign domains for having the CNX notifications center in partner navbar.The notification center inside of connections does not open inside of the 3rd party reusable navbar. Currently it says:Refused to display 'ht...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Saving option from Microsoft Excel/Powerpoint/Word AddOn

    Enhancement Request : AddOn in Microsft Word/excel/Powerpoint makes it possible to save documents directly in our folders/files on IBM Connections Cloud. But we have to check the option "possible to share with external people" otherwise it won't b...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Built-in support for Auth0

    Today Auth0 supports all major such as Microsoft, google, facebook, etc. It is now time for IBM to make support for this in Connections.
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    There should be a way to change the owner of "Protect area" in Docs Spreadsheet Editor.

    Translation: It is about the feature "Protect area" in Docs Spreadsheet Editor. The background of the scenario is about the customer has their own files repository integrated with Docs Editor and the file owner can be removed the access of their r...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

    Make links in a file preview clickable

    It would be nice if the links in a file preview were clickable/ working.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Getting the numbers and values for users from the "My Drive"

    I request an Admin option to know how many files the user have in the sync folder as we suspects to have some users with a large amount of files in the desktop connections sync folder. As admin I want to have a report and overview to see the size ...
    about 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Extension for search

    For a proper integration of 3rd party apps (community widgets, addons, Box and so on) we need extension point for search! Integrated content needs to appear in search, additional search boxes in widgets are bad and you can't tell users to search s...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

    Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

    Continue uploading files from large dataset even if one file fails to transfer

    When uploading a large number of files (for example, 2000 image files), if one file fails to upload, the upload process stops until the client manually continues the process. Request is for better functionality to 1) Retry the failed upload automa...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

    In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration
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