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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Find inactive (= unused) communities

As an admin of the system there should be also the option not only do filter and find communities (via CAT tool or wsadmin commands) which are inactive in case of the last timestamp of the updated/edited date property (e.g. community has been upda...
over 2 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

Prohibit / Restrict blog creation

There is no rule to prohibit Blog creation. For communities, for example, we can restrict a group of people that can create communities. There is no similar rule for Blogs.Customer request this feature to be added in a future version of the product.
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

HCL Connections to support reading photos from external source like HCL Verse and load into profiles database

If a customer has one Domino LDAP for several single tenant Connections environment and users upload their photos through HCL Verse and integration with Connections is not configured, HCL Connections should support reading photos from external sou...
over 2 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

personalized serial email

over hcl notes by using a excel or csv file with httl ode rtf output
almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Support MS SQL for surveys

As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Mobile App can't add apps to Community

Mobile App users can create communities, but they can't add applications, so it is not possible to add e.g., Wikis to this created community. Please add the option to add applications to communities (for owners).
over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

ODBC access to community stored files

currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

use email to upload files in a community

It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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