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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    Integration of a real photo viewer and video streaming player! (HCL Connections App)

    We use Connections not only as a collaboration platform but also as an intranet platform with ICEC. Our users like Connections but there are two functions that are clearly missing in the HCL Connections app. :) First: A REAL Photoviewer. In order ...
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

    Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    How to Automatically update Community Name Folder locally when the name changes in Connections

    When changing the Community Name in Connections, the only way to change the name in the Connections Plugin is to do it manually. How to do this change automatically?
    8 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Changing "Request to Join this Community" to something like "Joining Request had been sent" after sumbited joining requst

    When request to join a moderated community, user sumbit joining request by clicking "Request to Join this Community". After request was submitted, the "Request to Join this Community" would still be displayed. "Request to Join this Community" shou...
    8 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    File Sync not working for Community Files in Desktop Plug-in

    File Sync for communities is currently not supported. Only Personal Files are supported by Sync.Client has requested that an enhancement request be made to allow for Syncing of Community files
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Automatically remove inactive members of the community.

    When a member remove from LDAP, the member remain in community as inactive. Currently, here are some ways to remove a user from the community. 1. Community administrator need to remove each inactive user from community UI. or 2. It needs to remove...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Orient Me - Save decision which homepage to use in the user settings

    Today, the user decision to use Orient Me (New Homepage) will be saved as a cookie. Disadvantages: - User starts with classic homepage again after he deleted his cookies. This is pre-defined for some users to take place everytime the browser has b...
    over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

    Full Interoperability between Connections Events and Outlook Meeting

    Currently ConNext events can only be imported via ics or copy from feed in one's Outlook Calendar. Both have the drawback that you don't get informed in case of update of the original event. Moreover you might forget to set a reminder. Also import...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

    When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Allow for IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows browsing via [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from Microsoft Office applications.

    The current IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows does not allow for browsing when choosing [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from MS Office applications. The current functionality does not allow for the same browsing from [Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration
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