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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    Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

    use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    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

    Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Support standard keyboard shortcut F2 for rename of file

    In Windows Explorer F2 is the shortcut to rename a file in Windows Explorer. This is not available in Desktop Plugin. Her you have to make a right mouse click. Can you please enable the plugin to do so too.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow Business Owners the ability to export information on Guest Users from Communities with in their organization

    Create a mechanism where all Smart Cloud Org Owner(s) & Business Owners have the ability to export a full and complete list of all members within their own Smart Cloud communities which will include the full list of members and their informati...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Prevent severe error in logs on Notes 9 which occur after installing and running the Connections Plugin for Notes

    Notes 901 with Connections Plugin upgrade to FP10, FP10IF2/FP10IF3 . In the logs: notes/workspace/logs The error is displayed: SEVERE error.plugin.missingresource com.ibm.lconn.client.smartcloud The error specifically complains about a missing ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Desktop connector for files: Support multi-phase resumable uploads

    Connections APIs and web application supports HTTP resumable upload for large files. CDN infrastructures like Akamai or Cloudflare have limited "post" size and this prevents large files (eg. CloudFlare single post limit is up to 500Mb) to be uploa...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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