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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    CentOS Support

    Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists

    Enable Desktop Plugin for SAML+Kerberos

    In a SAML scenario, like IBM Connections Cloud (but not limited to), the customers IDP authenticates the user. If a browser is being used, the user is directed to the IDP server which needs to verify the users identity. In most cases, this IDP log...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Hierarchical Display of Communities and Sub-Communities in Desktop Plugins

    In Windows Explorer, communities and sub-communities are displayed at the same level and with the same icon. To find the right way around it would be very helpful to have a hierarchical view of communities and sub-communities in the Windows Deskto...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

    In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
    about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Provide better Error Messages for Infected Files when using Windows Plugins

    When using ICAP for virus scanning and uploading an infected file via the Windows Plugins for Connections, the file gets scanned and blocked correctly. However, the users just get the response that they are not allowed to upload the file. This is ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Option to create a list of Files/Folders

    Currently it's not possible to create a list of files/folders from the apps Files/Folders or Libraries in Community's similar to for instance the old fashioned DIR-command you can use to list files/folders for a local hard drive or networkdrive.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Calendar Subscription for tasks' due dates for Activities Plus

    The users' single point of truth for dates is their calendar. So dar Connections (legacy) Activities had a subscription in Notes. This kind of integration is missing for Activities Plus. Other than going forward to rebuilt it, I would prefer to ma...
    about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Provide "Follow" a Board Option for Activities Plus

    Each app and content has the option to follow it. There is one exception with Activities Plus. ,You cannot follow a single board. As a result stand alone-boards do not appear in the updates (activity Stream / Orient me) un less these are shared wi...
    about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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