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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    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types (MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Pictures etc.) to avoid downloading every file before it can be viewed/read.
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Already Exists

    Cascading Search in Communities

    As of today, if you search in a community, only the main community's content is being searched. If the community has one or more sub-communities, search doesn't look into their content. My expectation is that search always cascades to sub-communit...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add Typeahead in related community widget

    At the moment its only possible to paste the link to a community and to provide a title. It would be more convenient if I could just start typeing the community title.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Connections 5.5. Notes Plugin Status updates

    In the section "status updates" you can search for a Community/Person to follow. After a restart of the Notes client the selection is empty and has to be selected again. The selection should be kept and saved on memory.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Bundle Connections with all supporting 3rd party product and sell it with 1 part number

    There are several third party products that enhance the usage / adoption of IBM Connection, such as : Panagenda Connections Expert, give meaningful statistic to whether your adoption is successful Connections Administration Toolkit, provide UI fo...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop Plugin - method for saving the settings (eg communities added)

    Preserving user's community list in IBM connections Desktop PluginWe would like to have a method for saving the settings (eg communities added) from one system and applying them to another. Users who are members in many different communities, wou...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Flies Plugin - Highlight External Content (Communities, People, Files)

    Please improve the Files Plugin to clearly highlight external content, such as external communities, external files, external users. The current user experience is not consistent with the webbrowser and there is a risk that a file explorer user sh...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Define a permission or a read role over the directory that contains community files

    Customer need to know if it is feasible to restrict permissions on files that are stored in a community. They have many communities created in IBM Connections, but they only see two types of profiles (owners and members).Members sometimes delete w...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    request a custom search interface for the desktop plugin

    Please implement a search interface in the desktop plugin to get better search results. At this time the search failed with two different kinds of word separators ("_" and space) in a file name. Fixing this in the plugin would require implementing...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    How to restrict function showed in IBM Connection plugin for IBM Notes menu

    This request is to restrict IBM connection plugin for IBM Notes menu to shows only : - My folder- Community files- Community folders This is just to simplifies user adoption for the product. Based on internal collaboration, there are no options to...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement
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