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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    Request for Support from Oracle 18c for Connections

    Customer requests support of Oracle 18c with Connections 5.5 and 6.0 as we plan to migrated from Oracle 12c to Oracle 18c.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 3 No Plans to Implement

    Enable OAuth for Connections Desktop Plugin (onPrem)

    (we should have a category "Desktop Plugin" for ideas) The Connections Desktop Plugin authenticates "separately" with the connections server. OAuth is already supported by Connections mobile both in on-prem and cloud scenarios. This is similarly...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop plugin should support LongPathsEnabled under Win10

    Customer is using Windows 10, and has the LongPathsEnabled REGKEYenable. In OS, they are able to create long paths. Therefore customer requests to add support Win10 extended paths using LongPathsEnabled.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Rich text editor for surveys

    A rich text editor (like in other apps) would be also useful in the app "surveys" e.g. to insert links, pictures and more.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Apache Server as the Web Server

    Customer would like Apache server to be be supported with HCL Connections. Currently only IBM IHS is officially supported.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Make salutation in Invite as a config option

    At the moment Invite calculate the salution for the start page from the displayname (split by space and use first part of the string). The displayname is not always formatted as "Givenname Lastname" it often contains parts like external, team, org...
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Support standard keyboard shortcut F2 for rename of file

    In Windows Explorer F2 is the shortcut to rename a file in Windows Explorer. This is not available in Desktop Plugin. Her you have to make a right mouse click. Can you please enable the plugin to do so too.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    ICEC: Personalization to be able to work with dynamic values and not just hard coded ones

    "I am building an ICEC interface for IBM Connections Cloud, latest version. During registration of users an activity will be set up for that user based on a template. The activity ID will be stored in an extension field on the profile. The require...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    report or view when users completed the Touchpoint and accepted company Privacy and Guidelines

    We need an report or view when (date/time) the users have accepted the company policy and guidelines via touchpoint . This is an important information and an report via web UI for Admins and Audit team should be available.Please add such feature.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Please certify further virus scanning products.

    Could you please enhance further virus scanning products as certified with Connections. in ref to: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/secure/t_admin_common_virus_scanning.html
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement
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