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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    Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

    With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Change default value of overwriting a newer version via desktop-plugin

    In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the user that the server file has changed since the us...
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

    Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Improve logging options for communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. The task only logs w...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Like option consistency in mobile

    Add like options in mobile everywhere where it is possible in the browser! For example you can't like wiki pages or comments in mobile app (Android)
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Increase the options for Notifications within Communities

    Directly from the customer: We'd like to recommend that we add more options for sending and receiving notifications. From the content creator perspective we'd like to have an option to send a notification when we create new content: post a blog, c...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    ConNext Events Export list of attendees

    It shall be possible to export in one click the email list of the people that clicked "I will attend" to a ConNext event or mailto them.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    No mobile push notifications on api mention and answer although configured in notification settings, just browser push.

    PROBLEM:User does not get push notification on mention event over API.No mobile push notifications on api mention and answer although configured in notification settings, just browser push. Ref: https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpAPIVie...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Turn on Groups in Cloud

    When working with Communities its really lacking support for groups. Its easier to maintain access rights to Communities in stead of adding/removing one person in multiple communities. That way we could also have Administrator groups
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Client default for Notifications Preferences

    For most of our users the system default for notifications preferences is to "noisy". We like to have an options for the administrator to set our company defaults to be used when creating new (internal and external) users
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration
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