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 to support .wmv extension on Files Preview

    Customer would like to have ability the Preview files with extension .wmv on Files application. As per the note in the documentation below "The supported file formats are listed in this file and appear to be editable; however any changes to the fo...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Support Notifications_V1

    Customer wants to know if there are plans to stop support of the "old" notifications or will both notifications be supported? In "app_server_root/profiles/dm_profile_root/config/cells/cell-name/LotusConnections-config/ " directory there are 2 fold...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

    personalized serial email

    over hcl notes by using a excel or csv file with httl ode rtf output
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    ODBC access to community stored files

    currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    use email to upload files in a community

    It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

    It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Option to open specific Social Q&A contents from my mobile device

    Users would like to be able to open mobile links pointing to specific Social Q&A contents from mobile device since at the moment all mobile links only point to the start page of Social Q&A.
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    provide updates and support for new versions of Activities Plus in the component package as soon as they are available

    The release of Activities Plus in the Component pack is from March 2020. ISW has already released updates compared to CP CR1. There are many improvements and fixes here that we would like to use Please provide updates and support for new versions ...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Ideation Blog Widget - select specific ideation blog to display

    A community can have several ideation blogs. The connections ideation blog app makes navigating and managing those entries easier as there is an option to display the blogs first, selecting the blog in question and then browse through the indiviud...
    over 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Add support of OnlyOffice

    It is possible to integrate OnlyOffice in Connections. https://www.onlyoffice.com/fr/
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement
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