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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    CentOS Support

    Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists

    Request for the ability to configure whether files display in pages or as a continuous list

    Prior versions of Connections displayed files such that Total number of files displayed Individual pages were accessible via links Jumping to a specific page was possible In more recent versions, files display as a continuously scrolling list.Requ...
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Make My Drive, All Files and Folders available in every Windows Save and Open Dialog

    Only certain applications see the Connections My Drive and Connections Cloud options in the Save and Open dialog boxes. When these don't appear in an application, you cannot save or open files directly in the application with Connections. Adobe pr...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

    Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

    In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
    about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Option to create a list of Files/Folders

    Currently it's not possible to create a list of files/folders from the apps Files/Folders or Libraries in Community's similar to for instance the old fashioned DIR-command you can use to list files/folders for a local hard drive or networkdrive.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Completely remove all of the old stack from Connections by version 7.0

    As a business partner, we find it hard to sell the current version of Connections because customer need to provide 2 kind of hardware (one for WAS and another for the Component Pack). In fact we have one customer who repeatedly delay their planned...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

    In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

    All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

    Need the ability to download all files in a folder at once in Connections Cloud

    Customer is using Connections cloud. Currently he can download all files in a community via the function of "Download all files" (Under view of "Files"-"All Community Files"). Customer requested the same function of "download all files" for an fol...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Needs Clarification

    Increase number of custom profile fields limit (IBM Connections Cloud)

    We are using custom fields on profiles (IBM Help: Customizing your organization > Updating user profiles). Currently we use 8 of them and there is a limit of 10 custom fields.Can this limit be extended? On-prem you do not have a limitation and ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement
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