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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    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

    Change default value of overwriting a newer version via desktop-plugin

    In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the user that the server file has changed since the us...
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

    Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Remove Navigation bar on bottom of ICEC Pages on Mobile

    If you are using ICEC on Mobile, there is always a grey navigation bar on the bottom of the page, which is taking up a lot of space. This navigation is not needed and should be removed.
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 3 Already Exists

    Improve logging options for communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. The task only logs w...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase the options for Notifications within Communities

    Directly from the customer: We'd like to recommend that we add more options for sending and receiving notifications. From the content creator perspective we'd like to have an option to send a notification when we create new content: post a blog, c...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    ConNext Events Export list of attendees

    It shall be possible to export in one click the email list of the people that clicked "I will attend" to a ConNext event or mailto them.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Engagement Center OWA Widget

    Create a widget that would allow users to see their most recent emails received in Outlook. We display a link to outlook in our Engagement Center menu. Ability to see recent emails while on the landing page of engagement center would be very well ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Hide CSV option on invite guest if the user doesn't have the appropriate role

    Users get a popup when they click on invite guest and can select "invite" and "import csv". When they try to import csv, they can select a csv file and send invitation but this is not possible and an error occurs. Only Administrators are allowed t...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Outlook Connections Plug-in to co-exist with the Harmonie plug-in

    Our organisation has made the decision to move to O365 while we truly believe that IBM Connections offers the best value in enterprise collaboration. BUT we are now facing the issue that the two plug-ins that we offer for easy SharePoint sharing f...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists
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