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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Make Limit for first load in Windows Explorer Plug-Ins configurable (default is 500)

The current versions of the Windows Explorer Plug-Ins initially load a maximum of 500 files in case a community or a user has more than this limit. Users request to have different settings and not to use „Get All“ by a right mouse click everything...
over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

Expand the capability for the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community feature

Currently the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community are limited in the scope of the community data/content that is actually copied to the new community. Per https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/communities/c_com_copy.html ...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

" Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

bsi guidlines, certification

bsi guidlines, certification for Connections
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community

Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Integration of other web chat clients like Skype for Business

Currently, only Sametime version 9 can be integrated into HCL Connections. It would be fantastic if you could also integrate other web chat clients in Connections with presence display. Examples would be Skype for Business, Rocketchat.
almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

Print Activities

Please add a function to print acitivities.
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Add more actions for multiple files selected inside a community

If you select multiple files inside a community, Connections only shows the action to download all files selected. The system need to show other actions like delete, add tags, share, etc for multiple files selected
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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