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 function of changing the default access type when creating a community.

    When a user creates a community, the default Access type of the new community is "Public to My Organization". We want connections to provide a function so that the user can set the default type to others like "Restricted".
    about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Exclude IBM approved Open Source Libraries in AppScan to avoid incorrect reporting.

    As part of Phytel engagement project we have got approved list of Open Source Libraries which still shows up as in issue in AppScan, Request you to exclude the List of Libraries so that it will not be reported as an issue in future AppScans.
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Restrict Access to Sametime Web Proxy Widget in Connections

    Customer would like to access Sametime web proxy through Connections via LDAP group membership. The customer has requested that access to Sametime be limited to a specific LDAP group, which has been configured. They would like to prevent the Samet...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Edit Bookmarks does not work correcty

    The pop-down menu on the right side offers the option to "modify" your bookmark . In reality you can simply and only alter the number of displayed bookmarks in the shown window. If you want to make relevant changes you have to go into the applicat...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Not possible to post Firefox compatible file links into a status update

    We want to have the possibility to post links to file shares into status updates in Connections since we store files on file shares as well. A link looks like this and it should be possible to make this clickable in status updates. Firefox should ...
    over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Externals / Visitors should be able to be owners of restricted (external) communities

    In our company we do have for example externals which provide application support within Connections. That's why it would be great if they could edit forum entries, use @-mentions for community members, ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    PDF preview - package with more than one pdf

    is it possible to implement a pdf package preview in docs . if a pdf is uploaded to hcl connections files in preview there comes the message "in this pdf-package are more than one files compressed" please use adobe acrobat reader.
    almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Change order of related communities

    ​It would be nice if we could change the order of the linked/related communities (on community start page), since only 5 are visible in the preview.
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    The Docs Spreadsheet editor appears to be limited in that a drop down list comprised of a named range can only be a range consisted of a single row or column.

    The Docs Spreadsheet editor appears to be limited in that a drop down list comprised of a named range can only be a range consisted of a single row or column. This limitation is prompted to the user when attempting to set the source of a listed ce...
    almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    show in the section "My Communities" only the communities I'm a member of

    At the moment you find under "my communities" also communities you are not a member of. It also lists communities you've randomly clicked on in the "explore" section.
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists
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