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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    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

    Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Implement scheduled backup of ICEC pages for ICEC-Cloud

    IBM Connections Engagement Center (ICEC) allows to run scheduled backups of your ICEC pages. We need this feature in the cloud. When you work with ICEC pages and template-inheritance it might happen that you "destroy" one or multiple pages by mist...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 2 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Allow Microsoft file round tripping from Connections interface

    When a user finds an Office file from the Connections interface (either through files or communities) and then downloads that document from Connections and edits it in Office, he has to save it to his desktop and then "upload a new version". If th...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Already Exists
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