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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    Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

    RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

    Support for Chrome extension

    There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open to...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    File Sync not working for Community Files in Desktop Plug-in

    File Sync for communities is currently not supported. Only Personal Files are supported by Sync.Client has requested that an enhancement request be made to allow for Syncing of Community files
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    How to Automatically update Community Name Folder locally when the name changes in Connections

    When changing the Community Name in Connections, the only way to change the name in the Connections Plugin is to do it manually. How to do this change automatically?
    8 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Make File Folders searchable

    Users cannot search for folder names in the current releases. Make these searchable.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files'

    We want to have the option to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files' if they wanted to as they are not currently using the functionality and it appears to be causing confusion for their users.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

    Make locked files more visible

    Locked files have an icon indicating it in the list view and the custom view only. If a externally shared file is locked, there's no indicator in the grid view. Only the yellow link appears. If a file is locked, it should be more visible. Maybe so...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Upload size of files

    Currently only a maximum of 2GB Supported. Please set the value to 5GB support. I know that you can change the value of the config.xml. However, this sometimes leads to errors because more than 2GB are not supported.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Adding a way to set the users to "read-only" role to everything inside Connections

    A way to set users to "reader-only" role to Connections including Mobile and Plugins to avoid changes when there is a need to copy some data or perform backup will be useful. There is a way to set roles per application but it is good to have an "o...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Allow for IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows browsing via [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from Microsoft Office applications.

    The current IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows does not allow for browsing when choosing [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from MS Office applications. The current functionality does not allow for the same browsing from [Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration
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