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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    Please make it possible to import browser bookmarks into Connections.

    Please make it possible to import browser bookmarks into Connections. Most of the time you have already saved your most important pages as bookmarks, entering them again in Connections is tedious and unnecessary.
    over 3 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Increase guest invitation deadline

    External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    ICEC: Personalization to be able to work with dynamic values and not just hard coded ones

    "I am building an ICEC interface for IBM Connections Cloud, latest version. During registration of users an activity will be set up for that user based on a template. The activity ID will be stored in an extension field on the profile. The require...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

    Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Ability to configure whether Notification Center flyout displays blog images

    Blog entries display in the notification center when, for example, another user @mentions you or likes one of your blog entries. If there is an embedded image in the referenced blog entry, the new notification center does not display the image. Re...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Single copy storage in connection Files

    When end user upload a file to Files, the system should be able to identify if this file existed in Files already. If yes, just add a link, no need to upload it again. It will save much network bandwidth and server storage.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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