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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    Make notes plugin also support "mobile number" for connections Business Card integration. Now it only does "OfficeNumber".

    Make notes plugin also support mobile number for connections BC intergration. Now it only does OfficeNumber.
    about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Windows Explorer Desktop PlugIn functions (not sync) for Mac

    For Windows the Explorer PlugIn is available. It allows to view the contents of the file repository and to download and upload files. An upload creates a new version and asks for a description of the changes . In Windows as well the synchronizatio...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 6 Under Consideration

    Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

    Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Sametime V10 and Sametime V11 Support for Connections Integration

    Only Sametime version 9 is currently supported as a Chat client for HCL Connections. Why not version 10? Or version 11 in the future?
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

    Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

    Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    "Find a member" functionality within mobile app

    If you access the members section of a community via a web browser, you are able to use "Find a Member" to search for a member without having to navigate through the entire member list. You do not have the same functionality in the mobile app. Ins...
    about 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Adding touchpoint customization

    Making customization possible so that for example:- new people can "invite for my network" instead of only following.- add information to "background"- add links to "blog link"
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement
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