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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    PDF Export Functionality with MS Teams/ICXT Integration

    Add an additional "Save as File" option to allow downloading of the PDF directly instead of leveraging the browser's PDF viewer.
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Timestamp for the privacyAndGuidelines Field

    Currently in Connections, there is a timestamp for touchpoint in Unix timestamp format, but not specifically for the privacyAndGuideline field. This means that when new privacyAndGuidelines are configured in touchpoint-config.xml in version 1.3 fo...
    over 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Profile name pronunciation audio file shall support .m4a file format

    In your Connections Profile you can add an audio file for how to pronounce your name. Unfortunately default Windows audio format .m4a is NOT supported. (It seems only .wav or .wma.
    about 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Custom note area on IBM Connections

    I'd like to see a personal notes area on the IBM Connections pages for each person that you connect with that way you could easily pull up their profile and see what other information you have about them that would allow you to interact better wit...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Please Show a list of all communities. ALL! not only public

    See all communities on the web interface. Not only public communities but also moderated and restricted! The Link: https://connections-host/communities/service/atom/communities/all show only Public Communities.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    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
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