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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    Hide CSV option on invite guest if the user doesn't have the appropriate role

    Users get a popup when they click on invite guest and can select "invite" and "import csv". When they try to import csv, they can select a csv file and send invitation but this is not possible and an error occurs. Only Administrators are allowed t...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Outlook Connections Plug-in to co-exist with the Harmonie plug-in

    Our organisation has made the decision to move to O365 while we truly believe that IBM Connections offers the best value in enterprise collaboration. BUT we are now facing the issue that the two plug-ins that we offer for easy SharePoint sharing f...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Enable to see communities list via Windows Desktop Plug-in

    Communities list (community catalog) can be seen via browser, but these cannot be seen via Windows Desktop Plug-in. Please enable to see communities list via Windows Desktop Plug-in. IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows https://g...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Survey Rules - interface improvements needed

    When creating rules for a survey the operation is very clunky and could be a lot better to work with. Please improve this. As an example I did the following: I Created a survey with 4 questions that all have a similar type of format. On answer...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    TinyMCE Integration - Change the German Translation of "Permanent Pen" Label from "Textmarker" to "Kommentarstift"

    the TinyMCE Tool "permanentpen" is labeled as "textmarker" in German. Is there any way to change the labeling, so that it is named "Kommentarstift" for example? The "Permanent Pen" Tool, in German language, is labeled in HCL Notes and in HCL Verse...
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Better and more scalable

    Make Connections more scalable. We have some users who would like to work with a scaling of 150% Browser Scaling. Unfortunately, however, there is the problem that the header bar is no longer completely displayed. Modern website adapt to the diffe...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    [ConnX MT] Need to have the ability to customize Metrics UI

    Currently, Metrics UI can't be customized as its in written in hardcode. For example, if Connections deployed with features (such as Activities) disabled. It doesn't make sense if Metrics UI still display any column of Activities. Thus, it is need...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Security Issue w/ HCL Connections Component Managed Alias

    Per the customer: Specification of component-managed aliases on JAVA EE resources is prohibited. Currently this is a requirement and the customer's policy states: "Any Java EE application that runs within the cell can potentially access any Java...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Files - Allow to create Links to Files and Folders (e.g. at Desktop)

    It would be comfortable to have the opportunity to create a direct Folder or File-Link (e.g. at the Desktop) instead of clicking through Windows Explorer "communities - Community XY - Folders - ..." That function would increase acceptance in the B...
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement
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