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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    Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

    The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    Preview files on mobile

    Currently the mobile app downloads full file in order to render its preview. This is time consuming and megabytes of data are transfered unnecessarily. The generated preview is even not cached so you have to download the full file over and over if...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Under Consideration

    Support Mobile OAuth for Activities Plus or Kudos Boards in Connections

    Base on https://help.hcl-software.com/connectionsmobile/admin/overview/oauth2-software-requirements.html Activities Plus or Kudos Boards in Connections does not currently support mobile OAuth. Need HCL Connections to support Moible Oauth for Activ...
    5 months ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Allow easier switching between multiple accounts

    Many of us need to access multiple Connections sites (own company, customer sites, multiple cloud tenants). Allow quick switching between multiple sites without the need to use so many clicks and loosing context.
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Multiple helm charts use hardcoded ports for the service definition

    When deploying multiple instances of the connections component pack on the same Kubernetes cluster in different namespaces, you find that several ports are hardcoded inside the helm charts. The provided helm charts must be modified by hand to chan...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Change Invite process and possibilities into a more manageable service.

    In order to get a better understanding about your invited external users, there is a need for change in that process. Optional choice of security: Disallow all users to invite externals, except for those with the rights to do so. ( Like with Commu...
    about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Future Consideration

    New employees should automatically follow administrator-defined communitys

    New employees should automatically follow multiple communities. These communities are to be defined by the administrator.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Already Exists

    Support for Desktop Plugin under Windows Terminalservices /Citrix

    This useful feature needs support for the Windows Terminalservice/Citrix Envirnoment. The Windows/Citrix environment is the strategy of the IT vendor of saving banks in germany. Without this feature the files application is not practicably usable....
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

    The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Translations Software Support for IBM Connections App

    Currently there are translation software that can be integrated into IBM Connections. Unfortunately, the translation software does not work in the app. For this it would be good if you provide the interface to it. A interface to Reverso Translat...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement
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