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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    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    On-prem support for Outlook Add-in using OIDC configured with Keycloak

    Requesting support for using the on-premises Outlook Add-in with Keycloak OIDC
    over 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Abliity to change the external share status of a file after upload

    Currently, you can only decide if a file should be allowed to be shared externally during upload. If you change your mind, you should be able to change this in the UI as an owner of a file
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Upload PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Connections

    Hello, it would be a nice feature to upload a PDF file directly to Connections. When I have a open document in Adobe Reader --> save --> at Connections. Tags etc as following steps.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration

    Include the IBM developed System Applications from Portal legacy in every port to HCL DX containerized.

    There are about a dozen IBM created system applications included in WebSphere Application Server (ND) that could be inadvertently dropped if and when WAS is replaced by a non-royalty JVM like Liberty. Our company relies on one or two of these apps...
    3 months ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Create one single repository for all files & attachments so behavior is uniform across all elements of IBM Connections

    Currently personal files, community files, (if available) CCM files, blog attachments, forum attachments, wiki attachments and activity attachments are all stored in individual and separate file repositories with their own limits, behaviors and op...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Thumbnails for files in Desktop plugin

    In the desktop plugin.. the plugin should display the thumbnails of images as the Windows explorer does. When browsing through files using MS Windows Explorer, previews are shown in the form of thumbnails for many content types. This includes almo...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Allow users to remove themselves from a file shared with them

    The list of "files shared with me" contains files other people shared with you and can be quite extensive. Sometimes these include files people are no longer interested in or feel they shouldn't have access to (GDPR). At the moment, only the origi...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

    The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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