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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    Connections Mobile App and Desktop Plug-in should consider settings in profiles policy

    Profiles Policy allows an administrator to restrict some features in Profiles application (e.g. following, networking). For example, administrator could disable the "Following" feature for all users or specific user types (see https://www.ibm.com/...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Search suggestions (search and rescue) not properly implemented in all parts of searching in Connections

    When we search for all content, we get suggestions in the search result. If we search for "trainning", IC suggest "did you mean: training" When we do a search for "trainning" for example only within a community, we don´t get the suggestion. Some...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Prevent design allowing Chrome Right-Click "Open Link..." option for several apps (eg files, Forums, Ideation Blogs) where links don't exist, bringing up a blank page

    Specific to the Chrome Browser, if in any community page you try to right click on one of the Apps links (eg files, Forums, Ideation Blogs), the menu appears to "Open Link in New Tab" or "Open Link in New Window". There is no link to follow so you...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    No image preview in the "Add Files" dialogue

    The new Gallery widget which came with IC5 is quite nice.But when try to create different Folders and add images to that,There is no preview in the "Add Files" dialogue and so it's prettytough to identify a specific picture without knowing the fil...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Support File Explorer ribbon integration for Windows desktop plug-in

    Coping from old ER Blog: The Windows desktop plug-in integrates with the Windows 7 command bar but not the Windows 8/10 ribbon that replaced the command bar. This causes loss of functionality in any such areas. One example is the Get All button ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Community Bookmarks vs own Bookmarks

    One can not handle bookmarks from a community like ones own bookmarks, ie. easy apply tags, im-/export, ... This shall be improved, why is it not same functionality as for own bookmarks?
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to add Calendar to Community Description

    It would be nice if it is possible to add the Calendar View to the main page / top of the community. Should be some kind of app/ interactive Calendar
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Improve the access control for mixed license Connections Environment

    With the various type of licensing, it is possible to have one Connections environment with the following combination Files and Profiles only. Should not have access to homepage as well as other component but the personal files and profiles Conne...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Access to creating groups in communities.

    Requesting to create groups when you are owner of a community without a special request. Creating groups at Community Owner level is not possible. Right now the only way Admins can create groups is from Smartcloud Notes. For which you need to have...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhancement Request to increase the size limit for External members (Guest)

    Customer is requesting to increase the file size limit for External members (Guest) which is by default set to 25 MB as per the (https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/bhwiki.nsf/dx/What_a_Guest_User_can_and_cannot_do_in_LotusLive?OpenDocument&sa=true) ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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