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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    Other LDAP Posibillities - Azure AD Support.

    At the moment there are only LDAP options such as Active Directory, Domino LDAP, Open LDAP. We would like to have the option of connecting an Azure AD for external users as well.
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Already Exists

    Alarms from Connections events in Notes calendar

    For the integrations from Connections for Notes where you can add community calendars, is it possible that these would trigger alarms, or could be set up that way int he same way regular calendar events can be set up in Notes preferences to create...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Timestamp for the privacyAndGuidelines Field

    Currently in Connections, there is a timestamp for touchpoint in Unix timestamp format, but not specifically for the privacyAndGuideline field. This means that when new privacyAndGuidelines are configured in touchpoint-config.xml in version 1.3 fo...
    over 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    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

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Please Show a list of all communities. ALL! not only public

    See all communities on the web interface. Not only public communities but also moderated and restricted! The Link: https://connections-host/communities/service/atom/communities/all show only Public Communities.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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