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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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Adding touchpoint customization

Making customization possible so that for example:- new people can "invite for my network" instead of only following.- add information to "background"- add links to "blog link"
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Remember Last Filter setting in Community Overview

Because the "My communities" overview shows every community that you visited once. This overview show many communities. There is a filter option to filter on "I am owner". But you need to set that filter every time you go to communities. Our re...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Expiration Date for Wikis and Files

We miss the function of setting an expiration date. That's very useful. Especially if a document or a wiki is out of date you will be notified by e-mail that you have to create a more recent version. Great NEED with us!
about 5 years ago in 13. Other 5 Assessment

HCL Connections Desktop Plugin for DocsCorp

The plugin gives you the option to save files from Word, Excel, Power Point directly in Connections. It would be super cool if DocsCorp also had the opportunity. Select files from communities, edit them in Docs Corp and save them back to the commu...
about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

Make locked files more visible

Locked files have an icon indicating it in the list view and the custom view only. If a externally shared file is locked, there's no indicator in the grid view. Only the yellow link appears. If a file is locked, it should be more visible. Maybe so...
almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

support for HCL Connections Mail Plug-in to work with Microsoft 365 Mail

We would like to use the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in with O365. Unfortunately this is not supported at this time. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/connectionsmail/v6.5/Deploying/icm_admin.html Please enhance Connections Mail Plug-in support...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Improved navigation for Wikis on mobile devices

This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. There are a number of usability improvements needed for wikis with page hierarchies on mobile devices. These all could potentially be resolved if pr...
about 1 year ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review