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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    Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

    Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    File Sync not working for Community Files in Desktop Plug-in

    File Sync for communities is currently not supported. Only Personal Files are supported by Sync.Client has requested that an enhancement request be made to allow for Syncing of Community files
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Automatically remove inactive members of the community.

    When a member remove from LDAP, the member remain in community as inactive. Currently, here are some ways to remove a user from the community. 1. Community administrator need to remove each inactive user from community UI. or 2. It needs to remove...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Full Interoperability between Connections Events and Outlook Meeting

    Currently ConNext events can only be imported via ics or copy from feed in one's Outlook Calendar. Both have the drawback that you don't get informed in case of update of the original event. Moreover you might forget to set a reminder. Also import...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

    When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Allow for IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows browsing via [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from Microsoft Office applications.

    The current IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows does not allow for browsing when choosing [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from MS Office applications. The current functionality does not allow for the same browsing from [Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Support any registered community app - not just system apps

    Currently the mobile app only supports community apps that are system provided. Therefore, 3rd party community apps - even ones that are fully responsive design - are not supported by the mobile app. As such, extensibility with Connections is high...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Under Consideration

    Ability for external users to follow communities

    External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

    Automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin

    The customer is using the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin, and they are using communities very dynamically (per customer). Customer would like to automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin and refresh that...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration
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