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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    Handle confidentiality for sharing files via link from closed community

    With CR4 sharing a file via link has been introduced. While this is a great way of sharing files from communities as well as the Files application, this feature can become an issue once a file is shared from a closed community. Sharing a file via ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Windows Desktop plugin file search option

    When using the desktop plugin integration from Windows File explorer and try to search for a file in Connections files you can only use this form of search sentence : PartOfFilename* and not *artOfFilename* to find files. When you use the search i...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support IBM Installation Manager v 1.9. with Connections

    At this time still the old v1.8.5, packaged with the Connections installation is supported. Please test and support the newer IIM v1.9 asap.In ref to this IBM Technote- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installation-manager-and-packaging-utility-d...
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Synchronize data's between OnPrem Domino Directory and Connections Cloud Profile in both directions

    Customer wants to have the option to sync information from a Connections Cloud Profiles business card back to their OnPrem directory.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

    Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

    Support for SharePoint widget interaction with GCC High

    Requesting official testing and support for the SharePoint widget when accessing SharePoint as part of Microsoft Office 365 GCC High.
    over 1 year ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Provide additional font sizes for Tiny Editor

    The default font sizes available with TINY editor is 8, 10 ,12 ,14 ,18, 24 and 36pt . It would be great to have also size 9 or 11 ; best would be in 1 step
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Sync calendars with iCal

    It would be perfect to enable sync between Connections/Verse Calendar and external iCal. Many use iCal for family activity scheduling and have to open both the Verse Calendar and the Apple iCal or Google Cal to make sure they are coordinated. Sync...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration
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