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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    Support for folder structures in IBM Notes/Connections "Files" sidebar plug-in

    In IBM Notes, there is a Connections integration. In the Notes client, there is a sidebar plug-in for Connections "Files". The files that are being synced is just a flat list of files. We would like to get support for folder structures in the "Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    MS O365 Teams updates should be visible in my activity stream within Connections

    As a user working with IBM Connections (Cloud or on-premise) and in a Microsoft O365 environment it would help staying focused within the Enterprise Social Network (Connections) if updates from MS Teams can be seen within the Activity Stream (Orie...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to configure default view in Connections Desktop Plug-in

    When going to My files in the Connectons desktop plugin, we default to the Tiles view. You can change to the list, details, content etc. views. However, this is not presevered ... so you have to change the view everytime. In Windows Explorer, you ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Provide Docs templates to start with

    please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Sametime Meetings and Docs Integration

    When you are editing a document on docs sometime you need to talk to other people. HCL Docs should have an action to start a meeting using Sametime Meetings, this away it's possible to connect the people to develop a document.
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Future Consideration

    Hierarchical Display of Communities and Sub-Communities in Desktop Plugins

    In Windows Explorer, communities and sub-communities are displayed at the same level and with the same icon. To find the right way around it would be very helpful to have a hierarchical view of communities and sub-communities in the Windows Deskto...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Enable Desktop Plugin for SAML+Kerberos

    In a SAML scenario, like IBM Connections Cloud (but not limited to), the customers IDP authenticates the user. If a browser is being used, the user is directed to the IDP server which needs to verify the users identity. In most cases, this IDP log...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    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

    Provide better Error Messages for Infected Files when using Windows Plugins

    When using ICAP for virus scanning and uploading an infected file via the Windows Plugins for Connections, the file gets scanned and blocked correctly. However, the users just get the response that they are not allowed to upload the file. This is ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under 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
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