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 Desktop Plugin under Windows Terminalservices /Citrix

    This useful feature needs support for the Windows Terminalservice/Citrix Envirnoment. The Windows/Citrix environment is the strategy of the IT vendor of saving banks in germany. Without this feature the files application is not practicably usable....
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 No Plans to Implement

    The ability to chose the extension of an exported profile photo

    In Connections V8, if exporting Profiles photos by using dump_photos_to_files.sh , the exported photos are with ".dat" format, this can be only used to import to another Profile database. Need Connections to have the ability to export Profile phot...
    6 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Change default icon for application in Highlights

    Please add a way to customize how the application widget icons. There is a parameter in widgets-config.xml, but it does not help change the icon for application in Highlights. example of script: <widgetDef defId="label.customization.comm...
    almost 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Change the default number of communities loading in Communities catalog page

    Communities catalog page renders only 10 communities at initial load. The card view has 4 communities per row, and with current setting 2 rows are rendered in full and the third row is rendered in half, with 2 communities. It would look better if ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Embedded Experience is missing in Orient Me

    The classic homepage offered a very elegant way to get work done: the embedded experience allowed people to stay in the stream and work on event transactions in a popup that opened when clicking the event tile. In Orient Me this functionality was ...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Already Exists

    Allow Touchpoint to be customized the default Connections way

    To customize Touchpoint, files need to be changed directly in touchpoint.war directory on each node. This is not be the way to go, as Touchpoint now (as of Connections 6.5) is part of the default deployment. And customizations there probably get o...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Automatic scaling of the profile pictures

    When uploading the profile images in large resolution, these are scaled down by ibm connections directly into the correct resolution.
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

    The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Customer request "Paste Options" feature when editing Excel files

    In office, when you edit excel files, and copy/paste a grid with formula(see image1 as an example). You can choose paste options->paste special to select which content you want to paste: formula or value(See image2, image3). This feature is not...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    reinstate Elasticsearch Standalone support for Connections v7+

    Customers are forced to setup Kubernetes envoirnments if they want to continue using Metrics & Quicksearch for Connections - v7 & v8 only support Kubernetes-Elasticsearch. For most small customers (<1500 users) Kubernetes deployment is ...
    about 3 years ago in  0 Needs Review
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