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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    Hierarchical Display of Communities and Sub-Communities in Desktop Plugins

    In Windows Explorer, communities and sub-communities are displayed at the same level and with the same icon. To find the right way around it would be very helpful to have a hierarchical view of communities and sub-communities in the Windows Deskto...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to mail other external Community members from an external community member

    When somebody sends an email to a community, the sender is the email address. If that person is an external user, the sender address is the external email address. When that external user sends a mail to other external members in the community....
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow Upload of Images to Forum Topics in Mobile App

    When using the mobile app to post a new entry to a community forum, only plain text can be entered. Our users are complaining that they cannot upload images, taken with their mobile device. So please, add Support for a real rich text editor with i...
    almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Provide better Error Messages for Infected Files when using Windows Plugins

    When using ICAP for virus scanning and uploading an infected file via the Windows Plugins for Connections, the file gets scanned and blocked correctly. However, the users just get the response that they are not allowed to upload the file. This is ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Completely remove all of the old stack from Connections by version 7.0

    As a business partner, we find it hard to sell the current version of Connections because customer need to provide 2 kind of hardware (one for WAS and another for the Component Pack). In fact we have one customer who repeatedly delay their planned...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

    For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner fo...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Windows desktop plugin annoys with popup for login on start although nothing to do for the user

    The windows desktop plugin login process for web authentication needs absolutely NO popup once the user has made use of his federated SAML login via ADFS. The popup annoys every time you start the service, saying you are being logged on, nothing t...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

    Remove self-updates from Updates stream

    I would like to have the possibility in my Updates my own Status Updates or Blog updates removed from the feed.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Activity Reminder in Connections Plugin

    We're currently using the Activities Application in Connections to follow our actions. We'd love to be able to get an alarm or a notification in Lotus (Plugin), to remember us of an activity that need to be completed soon (let's say a week before ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    External email address can't be added while sharing file from IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    In IBM Connections Desktop plugin, when we are sharing file externally and trying to add external email address then there is only option to search that email address in directory. However since this is an external email address, it can't be searc...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration
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