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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    Support for folder structures in IBM Notes/Connections "Files" sidebar plug-in

    In IBM Notes, there is a Connections integration. In the Notes client, there is a sidebar plug-in for Connections "Files". The files that are being synced is just a flat list of files. We would like to get support for folder structures in the "Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    MS O365 Teams updates should be visible in my activity stream within Connections

    As a user working with IBM Connections (Cloud or on-premise) and in a Microsoft O365 environment it would help staying focused within the Enterprise Social Network (Connections) if updates from MS Teams can be seen within the Activity Stream (Orie...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Extra field in the "All Community Files" list

    We like to have an extra column in the "All Community Files" list so that we can see which of these files is shared in one or more folders (just the way we can see the # of views) We need this option to easily check: a) if all files are put in a f...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to configure default view in Connections Desktop Plug-in

    When going to My files in the Connectons desktop plugin, we default to the Tiles view. You can change to the list, details, content etc. views. However, this is not presevered ... so you have to change the view everytime. In Windows Explorer, you ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Enable sharing of folders on lower levels

    Sharing of folders is only possible on highest level. As an owner you need to give access to the parent folder in order to make people access the ones on lower hierarchies. We would like to be able to share a folder from personal space on a lower ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Allow for the default configuration of file folders to be sorted only by name

    Change the default behavior of Folders so they are sorted by name
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Preview option for all versions of a file in Files Application

    Currently we have "Download , Restore and Delete" options for older versions of files in "Files" applications. We would need "Preview" option also for all versions of a file.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Add a community(members) to a survey

    When a (leap) survey is created, you can add users to it. In the previous survey version in Connections 6.5, you created a survey in a community, so the members could use the survey. In the leap version, you have to add the users. Many users are a...
    10 months ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment

    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
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