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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    Link to open files directly in Android app

    Customer is running IC55 + CR1 and mobile devices running Andriod 6.x or newer. What customer really wants to create a link that can be used to automatically launch a file in the in the mobile app. Accodding to the product documentation available ...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Make Limit for first load in Windows Explorer Plug-Ins configurable (default is 500)

    The current versions of the Windows Explorer Plug-Ins initially load a maximum of 500 files in case a community or a user has more than this limit. Users request to have different settings and not to use „Get All“ by a right mouse click everything...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Integration of other web chat clients like Skype for Business

    Currently, only Sametime version 9 can be integrated into HCL Connections. It would be fantastic if you could also integrate other web chat clients in Connections with presence display. Examples would be Skype for Business, Rocketchat.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

    Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Option in AdminUI for Company Admin to view the overall IBM Connection Smartcloud Size and Overall Items size like Communities or stand-alone files for All users in his organization

    The admin needs an overview / metric for all users and all communities to follow usages and get the used storage.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Disable status updates for multiple file uploads

    When uploading many files at once to a community, e.g. pics taken at a trade fair or so, each upload generates a separate status update. So inadvertently I spam all my followers starting page. It's annoying. Why not have a checkbox or message dial...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Make it possible to place the Survey app in the (home screen) Community on mobile

    We use the survey to get response on the quality of our community and the use of Connections. To enable this we put the survey on the homepage of our community (‘s). This works for the desktop version of Connections but in the mobile app users don...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 5 Under Consideration
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