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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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Remove limit of 2000 Elements for a single Activity

Activities stop to work as soon as they store 2000 elements. Please remove this limitation.
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
8 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

Check for broken links in Wiki pages

It is very common situation that hyperlinks are broken in Wiki pages, i.e. they point to non-existing resources resulting in 404 errors. It would be great to have automatic way to check for broken links in Wiki pages and report them to Community o...
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Have profile pictures show up in newsletters without the need of changing the security role for profiles app

When enabling the new newsletter template, which is available since CR4, the profile pictures are not shown on the received newsletters. After setting the profiles app security role "Readers" from "All Authenticated in Application's Realm” to "Eve...
over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Under Consideration

Ability to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files'

We want to have the option to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files' if they wanted to as they are not currently using the functionality and it appears to be causing confusion for their users.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
12 months ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

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...
almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

filetypes for Docs Viewer - add OneNote (.one) support

Please add OneNote support for Docs. Viewing these files would be helpful for most companys using OneNote.
almost 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration