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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    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

    Full Interoperability between Connections Events and Outlook Meeting

    Currently ConNext events can only be imported via ics or copy from feed in one's Outlook Calendar. Both have the drawback that you don't get informed in case of update of the original event. Moreover you might forget to set a reminder. Also import...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

    When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    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

    Ability for external users to follow communities

    External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

    Automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin

    The customer is using the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin, and they are using communities very dynamically (per customer). Customer would like to automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin and refresh that...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

    supply more detailed fix lists for Desktop and Notes plugin

    There are new plugins available for Notes and MS Desktop but unfortunately the Release Notes do not specify which fixes are contained. Can you please provide more details to allow a better decision if an upgrade is required. Desktop Plugin https:/...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Increase the font size

    Most sites have such small font size I can barely read announcements in blogs, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance dialog for invited guest

    Guests outside of company can be invited. Once they accept the invitation a dialog appears with some information to fill - like password. We want to extend this dialog by a phone number (or other LDAP fields) - which is mandatory for some companie...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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