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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    Default time zone for user profile

    User profile time zones are set to (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West by default. Can there by a quick and easy manner to configurable option to set a default time zone for all user profiles, i.e. "(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"...
    about 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Manually order Bookmarks

    It should be possible to manually order the Bookmarks in a community. Now the latest bookmark is the first one. Users want to make their own order.
    almost 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Video player improvement

    It would be great to have a video player has a play speed controller. Generally, the way to integrate and play videos and upload e.g. easily from mobile really needs to be looked at.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

    CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH)

    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH) - To use CEPH in place of NFS. - To use default security privileges by OpenShift. - To use UID assigned by OpenShift.
    about 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    ADMX Templates for Desktop Plugins

    To configure group policies in a Windows Domain, typically ADMX templates are used. However, for the desktop plugins, only old ADM Templates are available, which don't work well with current Windows versions. The old ADM Files were used with Group...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Do not translate highlights

    The new app highlight is translated into German with "Schwerpunkte". The automatic translation of the Knowlegde Center translates it into "Besondere Funktionen" Do you have to translate the term? The "Tags" have not been translated. It's good that...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Ability for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

    In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Desktop Plugins: automatically clean up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing.

    CHANGE REQUEST: Build something into a new version of the installer which automatically cleans up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing. REASON FOR CHANGE:Customer has had problems getti...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

    With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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