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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    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

    Notification requirements

    More notification settings. For example, if a new blog post was created in a community, I would also like to receive a browser notification, not just email notifications.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

    Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    HCL product dev. team have to improve the quality of rendering PPT/PPTX file for satisfying customer's requirement.

    Nowadays lots of customer would like to use HCL Connections Docs for co-editing feature to leverage team productivity. But there are two so critical problem related with rendering PPT/PPTX file. 1. The rendering result of file viewer removed back...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Option in AdminUI for Company Admin to view the overall IBM Connection Smartcloud Size and Overall Items size like Communities or stand-alone files for All users in his organization

    The admin needs an overview / metric for all users and all communities to follow usages and get the used storage.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration
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