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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    Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals.

    Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals. If this were present in the native product, we would no longer need our FileNet deployment.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Desktop Plugin - Suppress Sync Errors During Server Maintenance (Maintenance Mode)

    Idea: Implement a logic within the HCL Connections Desktop Plugin that detects when the server is in a designated "Maintenance State" (e.g. HTTP 503 or HTTP 540) and temporarily suppresses user-facing error pop-ups. User Story: From the Administra...
    4 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Allow to share community files from/to Verse

    Why Verse supports only personal files? This is a real pain point which blocks adoption.
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Under Consideration

    Make Desktop plugin to appear as a drive/location in Windows

    Please change the way desktop plugin is presented in Windows - make it available in all open/save dialogues so we can work with Connections files from any application. It should appear the same way as Dropbox, Box.com etc. For example, I need fre...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    Ability to apply default/template view to Desktop Plugin folder views in Windows

    Requesting the ability to apply folder template view to the way the Desktop Plugin displays folder contents in Windows.
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

    Watson workspace integration

    allow some out-of-box integration between Connections (both on prem and cloud) with WW. All people shall be decorated with online presence indicators and there shall be a “WW space” widget for Communities which would link a single space with a giv...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 4 No Plans to Implement

    Pinning of community files and files shared with a community not possible

    2 Scenarios to upload a file: A user can upload a file into "My Files": * pinning is possible in the Files app (via "My Files", "Public Files", etc.). A user can share this file (uploaded into the "My Files") with a community ("Shared from Files")...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to share externally from files

    We would like the ability to share files added on Connections Cloud with external people and partners from their company. We deal a lot with external partners and it is a hassle to have to save the file locally from Connections Cloud and then atta...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 12 Needs Clarification

    Sametime integration

    Allow easy, out of box, server-side integration between Connections and Sametime onprem. All names shall be decorated with online presence indicator and there should be a “who is online” widget in communities.
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Future Consideration

    General Integration of GroupChat services (MS Teams, Slack, Sametime, etc.)

    When identifying an expert on Connections directly start a chat from the user profile and/or profile business card.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration
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