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 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

    Custom note area on IBM Connections

    I'd like to see a personal notes area on the IBM Connections pages for each person that you connect with that way you could easily pull up their profile and see what other information you have about them that would allow you to interact better wit...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future 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

    Add "Open in App" button when a page is viewed on a mobile browser (Connections OnPrem)

    A user hits a link that renders a connections page. When that page comes from Connections Cloud, it's an universal link and the mobile app will be launched. Universal links are "cloud only" and cannot be used in onPrem installs. Idea: Why not gene...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 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

    Rich text editor for surveys

    A rich text editor (like in other apps) would be also useful in the app "surveys" e.g. to insert links, pictures and more.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Apache Server as the Web Server

    Customer would like Apache server to be be supported with HCL Connections. Currently only IBM IHS is officially supported.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make salutation in Invite as a config option

    At the moment Invite calculate the salution for the start page from the displayname (split by space and use first part of the string). The displayname is not always formatted as "Givenname Lastname" it often contains parts like external, team, org...
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    ICEC: Personalization to be able to work with dynamic values and not just hard coded ones

    "I am building an ICEC interface for IBM Connections Cloud, latest version. During registration of users an activity will be set up for that user based on a template. The activity ID will be stored in an extension field on the profile. The require...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration
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