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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    External email address can't be added while sharing file from IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    In IBM Connections Desktop plugin, when we are sharing file externally and trying to add external email address then there is only option to search that email address in directory. However since this is an external email address, it can't be searc...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Link to open files directly in Android app

    Customer is running IC55 + CR1 and mobile devices running Andriod 6.x or newer. What customer really wants to create a link that can be used to automatically launch a file in the in the mobile app. Accodding to the product documentation available ...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Allow linking anything to anything

    Allow the same way of linking all type of documents to each other, like in Wiki pages. Also check if the link target document is deleted and when you delete a document check if it is linked to anywhere.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Clarification

    Show Teaser of Blog Entry instead of full entry before A user opens it

    The content of a blog is fully presented to the reader as soon as the blog app is opened. This limits the amount of posts a user can see at a glance and as well impacts the read count of the post since there is no need to open the post.Add a tease...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Make Limit for first load in Windows Explorer Plug-Ins configurable (default is 500)

    The current versions of the Windows Explorer Plug-Ins initially load a maximum of 500 files in case a community or a user has more than this limit. Users request to have different settings and not to use „Get All“ by a right mouse click everything...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

    The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Improve the performance of the 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. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration
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