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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    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

    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

    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Add a community(members) to a survey

    When a (leap) survey is created, you can add users to it. In the previous survey version in Connections 6.5, you created a survey in a community, so the members could use the survey. In the leap version, you have to add the users. Many users are a...
    10 months ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment

    Tag cloud font-size bigger than 5

    Customer would like to use font-size bigger than 5 If the community content tags have frequency greater than 5, they get the font-size 5 assigned and are not distinguished by size. I checked the code in TagCloud.js (Connectionshost/xcc/js/widgets/...
    about 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 2 Under Consideration

    Enable Desktop Plugin for SAML+Kerberos

    In a SAML scenario, like IBM Connections Cloud (but not limited to), the customers IDP authenticates the user. If a browser is being used, the user is directed to the IDP server which needs to verify the users identity. In most cases, this IDP log...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Hierarchical Display of Communities and Sub-Communities in Desktop Plugins

    In Windows Explorer, communities and sub-communities are displayed at the same level and with the same icon. To find the right way around it would be very helpful to have a hierarchical view of communities and sub-communities in the Windows Deskto...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Policy or Key Setting in HCL Connections for Mac for the Sync Folder

    We request a policy entry for the Sync Folder name in the HCL Connections for Mac plugin. Unfortunately here is no key listed https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/connectors/enduser/r_policies_prefs_for_mac.html. We are trying to setup a pli...
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration

    Provide better Error Messages for Infected Files when using Windows Plugins

    When using ICAP for virus scanning and uploading an infected file via the Windows Plugins for Connections, the file gets scanned and blocked correctly. However, the users just get the response that they are not allowed to upload the file. This is ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Automatical import of content from .html file into Connections wikis

    Our team does several tool version releases per year. for each release we update the content of the documentation (e.g. user manuals) using an automate script (we write the content as text in the script, and the script generates .html files), beca...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration
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